Learning and the e-generation

1. Learning in a digital world : Starting points ; Hopes, dreams and nightmares ; Why is the supportive evidence so hard to find? ; How does psychological theory illuminate the educational debate? ; How can we bridge the home school digital divide?

2. How do people learn? : What is learning? ; Beyond general theories of learning ; What about the quality of learning? ; Active versus passive learning ; Preferred learning styles ; What about the learner?

3. Social interactions and written communication : Communicating online ; Changes in written language ; Abbreviations mediated through technology ; The effects of text abbreviations on literacy skills

4. E-books, e-readers and tablets, are they the way forward? : E-books: are they effective teaching tools or an adjunct to real reading activities? ; Promoting collaboration and peer-group interactions ; Adult instruction is still important ; The benefits of Kindles and iPads ; Mobile technology and second language learning ; What about those at risk of reading difficulties? ; A multisensory experience

5. Becoming digitally literate : Engaging with new forms of literacy ; So which literacy skills are required to become a digital native? ; The multimodal landscape ; Visual literacy and visual representations ; How can visual representations support learning?

6. Social networking as an educational tool : Facebook as a popular networking tool ; Social capital ; Social networking in educational contexts ; So why is the educational use of an SNS different from using a virtual learning environment (VLE)? ; Where does this leave us? ; The need to establish rules of the game: netiquette

7. Absorbed by technology : Addiction and wellbeing ; Time wasting ; Driven by the fear of missing out (FOMO) ; The interplay of cognition and Internet activity ; Are multitaskers always at a disadvantage? ; Going with the flow ; So what are young people learning?

8. Games, learning and education : The nature of games ; Simply addicted to games? ; Games and learning ; Is gaming a panacea for educational ills? ; The future of games for learning

9. Misbehaviour or merely misunderstanding? : What is academic dishonesty? ; Prevalence rates of academic malpractice ; Why do students take the risk? ; Do they know what they are doing? ; And the solution is?

10. Being emotionally intelligent and risk resilient : Shades of light and dark ; Overcoming risks and building resilience ; Self-disclosure and social networking ; So are emotional intelligence and resilience the key to reducing risk? ; How do we cultivate a state of emotional intelligence and risk resilience?

11. The future of learning : The skills of the net generation ; Bridging the home-school divide ; Can psychological theory inform educational practice? ; Promoting educational change ; Learner, teacher and school level characteristics ; Many possibilities but no certainties.