PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE

The articles in this special issue address different perspectives on the use of digital technologies in schools, and education more generally. Together these articles highlight the complexity that digital technologies have for teachers, teacher trainees, students and indeed researchers. To understand the role digital technology holds for education requires us to look at the range of pressures: to use technology; the ways in which technology can be used for learning and teaching activities; the impacts of and the potential for digital technologies; and importantly how the use of technologies fits within our understanding of what learning is and how it happens. In this commentary I wish to explore some of these complexities in more detail and suggest possible areas for further research and reflection