This book describes and explains how digital technologies enter adolescents' everyday life and learning in different contexts and environments. The book is based on research conducted in recent years in the Czech Republic, the results of which are set within a broad theoretical and international framework.
The authors consider the theoretical and methodological anchoring of the topic, describing various approaches in an effort to comprehensively describe and understand the learning process of today's pupils. They focus on ways to explore learning in the digital era, domestication of digital technology in families, and parents' approaches to digital technology. Attention is paid to adolescents' competences and autonomy in the use of digital technologies, as well as their views on technology in their lives and learning. The authors summarize the most important results of the research, but also consider the options of empirical research and their own experience with the research of such a complex concept.

Presents a number of observations about the education and life of digital youth in general Offers a wide range of comparisons on the topic at national and international levels Benefits teacher educators by looking at the issue of learning with digital technologies both inside and outside school

Autorentext

Jirí Zounek is an Associate professor at the Department of Educational Sciences of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). His research has focused on digital technologies in education and on the history of education in Czechoslovakia in the 20th century. In the last decade, he has been the grantee or project partner in several research and development projects. He has (co-)published several academic books in Czech and also articles in international journals and lectures on the history of education, digital technologies in education, and e-learning. Libor Juhanák is a researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. His research interest lies primarily in technology-enhanced learning and digital technologies in education, with a focus on learning analytics and educational data mining. He had participated in several research and developmental projects as a team member. He has published in prestigious international journals and he is the second author of a collective book about e-learning.

Klára Záleská is an assistant professor at the Department of Educational Sciences of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). Her research has focused mainly on immigrant children's education from the comparative perspective, but also on digital technologies in education. Klara Zaleska has been member of several research teams and development projects. She is co-author of several articles published in international journals.

Inhalt
Preface.- 1. Digital technologies and learning across a variety of contexts and environments.- 2. New challenges for educational research in the digital era.- 3. Education, life, and digital technologies in the Czech Republic: the story of a post-socialist country in Central Europe.- Part I: Teens and digital technologies in the school context .- 4. Teachers and their use of digital technologies in school.- 5. Availability and use of digital technologies in relation to students' school performance.- Part II Teens and digital technologies in the family/home context .- 6. Differences in the use of digital technologies by young people based on family characteristics.- 7. Ambivalent parental relationships to digital technologies.- Part III Teens and digital technologies in everyday life .- 8. Young people and the development of digital competence and autonomy.- 9. The life of today's teens: with and without digital technologies.- Conclusion.