Nicola Yelland is a Professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Over the last decade her research has been related to the use of ICT in school and community contexts.  This has involved projects that have investigated the specific learning of students in computer environments as well as a broader consideration of the ways in which new technologies can impact on the pedagogies that teachers use and the curriculum in schools.  Her multidisciplinary research focus has enabled her to work with early childhood, primary and middle school teachers to enhance the ways in which ICT can be incorporated into learning contexts to make them more interesting and motivating for students, so that educational outcomes are improved. Her latest publications are Rethinking learning in Early Childhood Education (OUP) and Rethinking Education with ICT: New directions for effective practices (Sense Publishers). She is the author of Shift to the Future: Rethinking learning with new technologies in education (Routledge, New York).  She is also the author of Early Mathematical Explorations with Carmel Diezmann and Deborah Butler and has edited four books: Gender in Early Childhood (Routledge, UK), Innovations in Practice (NAEYC) Ghosts in the Machine: Women’s voices in Research with Technology (Peter Lang) and Critical Issues in Early Childhood (OUP). Nicola has worked in Australia, the USA, UK and Hong Kong.