Using CD‐ROMs as a pedagogical tool
Multicultural Education & Technology Journal
ISSN: 1750-497X
Article publication date: 17 April 2007
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the potential uses of CD‐ROMs in multicultural education through an analysis of the development of a digital archive of political posters relating to the Northern Irish conflict.
Design/methodology/approach
The author draws on literature on the relationship between new media platforms and the construction of knowledge to make some observations about the way in which different forms of media can enable us to think in different ways.
Findings
As a pedagogical tool, CD‐ROMs strike a good balance between the limitations of the codex book and the anarchic nature of the world wide web.
Research limitations/implications
This paper illustrates the importance of distinguishing between different forms of new media.
Originality/value
Most analyses of digitisation tend to conflate CD‐ROMs and the world wide web. This paper argues that a clear distinction should be made between the two media platforms, the value of which is to illustrate the extent to which the former avoids some of the weaknesses that abound in the latter.
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Citation
White, A. (2007), "Using CD‐ROMs as a pedagogical tool", Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 36-46. https://doi.org/10.1108/17504970710745193
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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