Rethinking learning in the digital age EDUsummIT summary reports

This ebook is a collection of outcome reports by the thematic working groups (TWGs) of EDUsummIT 2017. EDUsummIT (International Summit on ICT in Education) is a global knowledge building community of researchers, educational practitioners, and policy makers committed to supporting the effective integration of research and practice in the field of ICT in education. EDUsummIT was founded in 2009 to extend and further develop the work undertaken by the authors of the International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, edited by Joke Voogt and Gerald Knezek (2008). Since its inception, EDUsummIT has been held five times, firstly in the Hague (2009), then Paris (2011), Washington D.C. (2013), Bangkok (2015) and most recently in Borovets (2017). Between 70 and 140 participants from six continents have attended each of the EDUsummIT meetings. While EDUsummIT participants meet biennially, thematic groups focusing on pertinent research topics in ICT and education are formed prior to the Summit to prepare discussion papers. These papers are further developed during EDUsummIT. After each EDUsummIT, TWG findings are published in international journals and presented at major conferences. Previous EDUsummITs have been organised in association with international and national organisations actively supporting the use of information technology in education. These organisations include the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), Kennisnet (The Netherlands), the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 3.3 (Research into Educational Applications of Information Technologies), the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), the Teacher Development and Higher Education Division at UNESCO and UNESCO Bangkok.