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Rethinking education in the age of technology: the digital revolution and schooling in America

Author

Collins, Allan

Publisher

Teachers College Press

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Language

English

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LB1028.3 .C636 2018
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From the Book - Second edition.

1. How education is changing

The structure of this book

2. The technology enthusiasts' argument

The changing world

Enhanced capabilities for educating learners

The enthusiast's vision of schooling. 3. The technology skeptics' argument

Locked in place?

Why education reforms fail

Barriers to technology use in schools

Synthesis: incompatibilities between schools and technology

The skeptics' vision of schooling

4. The development of American schooling

From apprenticeship to universal schooling

The establishment of universal schooling in America

The evolution of a school system

How the demands on schools have changed

The cycle of revolution

5. The seeds of a new system

Seeds that support school learning

Interest-based learning environments in the wild

Conclusion

6. The three eras of education

Responsibility: from parents to the state, then to individuals and parents again

Expectations: from social reproduction to success for all to individual choice

Content: from practical skills to disciplinary knowledge to learning how to learn

Pedagogy: from apprenticeship to didacticism to interaction

Assessment: from observation to testing to embedded assessment

Location: from home to school to anywhere

Culture: from adult culture to peer culture to mixed-age culture

Relationships: from personal bonds to authority figures to computer-mediated interaction

Critical transformations in education

7. What may be lost and what may be gained

What may be lost

What may be gained

Realizing the promise and mitigating the danger

8. How schools can support the new technologies

Performance-based assessment

New curriculum designs

New approaches to equity in a digital world

9. What does it all mean?

What are kids learning from technology?

How has technology changed kids' social lives and learning?

Where does this leave us?

10. Rethinking education in a technological world

Rethinking learning

Rethinking motivation

Rethinking what is important to learn

Rethinking careers

Rethinking the transitions between learning and work

Rethinking educational leadership

Rethinking the role of government in education

Our vision of the future.

From the Book

How education is changing

The technology enthusiasts' argument

The technology skeptics' argument

The development of American schooling

The seeds of a new system of education

The three eras of education

What may be lost and what may be gained

How schools can cope with the new technologies

What does it all mean?

Rethinking education in a technological world.

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Subjects

Administration
EDUCATION
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General
Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
Education -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions
Educational change
Educational change -- United States
Educational technology
Educational technology -- United States
Effect of technological innovations on
Electronic books
General
Organizations & Institutions
Social aspects
Technological innovations
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States
United States

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Contributors

Halverson, Richard author

ISBN

9780807750032
9780807776919
9780807759066
9780807750025

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