Challenges 2009 - International Conference on Information and Communication

The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education is both the support and the means for the emergence of new views, ways of thinking, processes and contexts underlying accomplishment in social and school learning.

A thorough study of this subject influences the conception of new interfaces between what is formal and informal and what is experienced and constructed through social interaction and contact with sites and representations of knowledge.

The diffusion and generalization of Web x+1 promotes a growing proximity between communities of practice and schools through a collaborative and shared mediation in network learning environments