Book Review Digital pedagogical media: Practical implications for the secondary classroom (original) (raw)

Johnston-Wilder, S. and Pimm, D. (Eds.) (2005). Teaching secondary mathematics with ICT. Berkshire, UK: Open University Press. 255 pp. ISBN 0-355-21381-2 (pb) 0-355-21382-0 (hb) The use of digital technologies is prevalent in most aspects of everyday life. In areas as diverse as shopping, communication, banking, travel, and entertainment, they thread operational processes from design, production, function, maintenance, to surveillance. The potential they have to revolutionise mathematics education and, in fact, the nature of mathematics itself, has been recognized from their early inception (e.g., Seymour Papert's Mindstorms: Children, computers and powerful ideas), yet only realised intermittently in mathematics classrooms. There is certainly superb practice occurring, but it doesn't permeate all feasible learning opportunities, and is often utilized to support traditional modes of learning. Progress is being made, momentum is gathering, and issues of equity and access are ...