摘要：Learning in the Cloud is an informative and thought-provoking book. It is ambitious in its goals for K–12 education and the ways digital media may be operationalized to help achieve a new vision of 21st century learning. While deeply embedded in the US context and primarily written for this audience, Learning in the Cloud provides information and discussion that will be of value more broadly. The text moves from the more theoretical to the practical through its chapters and provides many detailed examples of how—and how not to—go about implementing digital media in K–12 schools. Essentially, the book may be said to have a three-part architecture. The early chapters consider the goals for using technology in education and the tools available. A chapter on exemplar projects from selected schools around the country then follows. The next two chapters look at designs and environments and further develop the key concepts or principles introduced earlier. Having the exemplars chapter in the middle of the book is a wise construction, operating as a consolidation for the earlier discussion of goals and tools, and functioning as a reference for designs and environments.
