Web 2.0 in Education / Call for chapter proposals for a new book

I'm putting together a new book collection on "Web 2.0 in Education: Applying the New Digital Literacies". The book will seek to interrogate many of the popular concepts that have thus far shaped discussions about Web 2.0 in the classroom (digital natives, platform of participation, collective intelligence) by seeking contributions based on actual empirical research. Digital natives, for example, while intuitively valuable, is a contested term that needs contextualizing and should not be taken for granted. While Web 2.0 technologies seem to point towards a decentralization of teacher authority, they often end up centralizing teacher control instead. The book hopes to explore tensions in such concepts as digital natives/digital immigrants, decentralizing tendencies of social constructivism/centralizing tendencies of Web 2.0 technologies in actual classroom contexts. Deconstructing some of the myths surrounding the technological determinism associated with Web 2.0 is as much of a responsibility as trying to foster collaborative and participatory teaching and learning environments.
More information about the call for papers and case studies can be found here: http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/Web2book.pdf

We look forward to your contributions and discussion about Web 2.0 and the application of the new digital literacies in the classroom.