The first book in the cultural literacy debate that also considers the new classroom technology available to students, Brave New Schools is a vision of schooling for the twenty-first century. A response to the work of Hirsch and Bloom, as well as a guide for parents and teachers, Brave New Schools describes a world of students, teachers, and parents globally connected by the Internet, thereby able to communicate across geographical and cultural barriers once thought impassable. Brave New Schools also contains a valuable section on K-12 networking resources, lists of published materials available, and descriptions of successful networking activities. Stunning in its implications for the future of learning guided by technology, Brave New Schools offers hopeful solutions to the problems of cultural difference and the future of our children.
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Declaring that McLuhan's "global village" is upon us, the authors of this discerning report describe a revolutionary pedagogy that is already having widespread impact in the classroom of the Internet. They advocate "long-distance teaching partnerships across cultures" that will take advantage of the latest technology to promote academic achievement. Their prescription for educational reform, they claim, encourages student sensitivity to a variety of cultural perspectives. The eight models viewed here focus on two active networks and portray students in pursuit of knowledge as "border crossers" in a multicultural environment. Educators are challenged by these findings to harness technology to address school reform. Part two, about half the book, is a guide to the Internet for parents and teachers. It includes a 100-page list of Internet resources. Cummins is professor of modern languages at the Ontario Institute in Toronto; Sayers directs the bilingual education program at New York University.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Dennis Sayers is the senior research scholar at The University of California Educational Research Center.
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An indispensible resource for collaborative learning,
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This review is from: Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks (Hardcover)
Technology abounds in school settings and will be the major force in curriculum change in the next century. The theme of this book relates to the connections that students have presently, and will be achieving through the guided use of the Internet. Cummins and Sayers cite studies conducted on communications between learners across the globe and the salience these connections have to the students' cognitive and communicative development. Electronic communities of learning are student-centered, and use computer technology in a similar way that others have used the postal system to create intercultural learning networks. The authors address peer instruction and cross-age tutoring emphasizing the importance of collaborating and fostering cultural, functional, and critical literacies. Functional literacy related to the world of work and encompasses all those reading and writing skills that a worker needs to function in the industrial/informational world. Cummins & Sayers explain that educational reform must move away from functional literacy and traditional pedagogy while striving to educate all children. They sharply criticize the opinions of E.D. Hirsch and his list of monocultural facts that in his judgement should be the knowledge that is imparted to the next generation in order to perpetuate traditional collective knowledge of US culture. This cognitive isolationism has a limiting effect on the need of children to draw from a more global well of knowledge and the text accuse people like Hirsch, William Bennet, Arthur Schlesinger, et al of intellectualizing xenophobia. The many case studies in this book indicate that collaboration across borders, both political and intellectual, is enriching and empowering to students. It is very helpful that the last part of the book lists and summarizes a substantial number of multicultural web sources, categorized by subject area. I do have a concern that the URLs may not be remain current due to the fluid nature of the World Wide Web. For the time being, however, I have found several that the authors have recommended being both accessible and informative for teachers and students. I recommend this book to all teachers who endeavor to introduce their students to collaborative and multicultural strategies across the traditional subject areas. To demand that computers be placed in every classroom is a good start to upgrading and incorporating technology in the classroom, but many teachers are not prepared to use it as a teaching tool. Cummins and Sayres offer teachers suggestions and models of instruction through several case studies that followed successful programs.
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Timely, discussing issues others seem to want to ignore,
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This review is from: Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks (Hardcover)
Cummins & Sayers bring up very important points regarding ed reform and its relationship to multiculturalism and technology in the classroom. The idea of global learning networks is powerful and timely. Without a global perspective, our students will not only suffer morally, but also economically. Certainly, business, industry, and polity all have something to gain from a more global, cultural approach to learning. To see my own perspective, visit
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc-conf/pres/menchaca.html
--Mike Menchaca
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Empower your students with a critical voice in our society!,
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This review is from: Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks (Paperback)
If you as an educator are brave enough to empower your students with a critical voice in our society today,then this book will be a valuable tool in linking you with technological resources. Cummins & Sayers emphasize the importance of collaborating and fostering cultural and critical literacy. Educational reform must move away from functional literacy and traditional pedagogy while striving to educate ALL children.Technology combined with collaborative critical inquiry can act as a catalyst to empower students of today for the problems they will face tommorrow
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Some would ask: Why speak of technology, let alone computer technology, when textbooks-even pencils and paper for that matter-are in such short supply, and when school buildings remain dilapidated after decades of neglect? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interschool networks, collaborative critical inquiry, intercultural learning networks, global learning networks, interschool networking, proverbs project, brave new schools, critical literacy skills, electronic discussion groups, teaching partnerships, transformative pedagogy, literacy crisis, partner classes, coercive relations, intergenerational learning, distant colleagues, accelerated schools, national postal service, educational networking, networked resources, cultural illiteracy, progressive pedagogy, cultural packages, folk games Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, The Contemporary, World Wide Web, Celestin Freinet, Modern School Movement, North American, Genocide Project, Middle East, Puerto Rico, Veli Joze, San Francisco, University of California, Department of Education, Mario Lodi, Sherman School, Cold Spring Harbor High, Cooperative Education Movement, Quebec City, Day of the Dead, Latin America, Library of Congress, Pump Project, San Diego New!
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Some would ask: Why speak of technology, let alone computer technology, when textbooks-even pencils and paper for that matter-are in such short supply, and when school buildings remain dilapidated after decades of neglect? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interschool networks, collaborative critical inquiry, intercultural learning networks, global learning networks, interschool networking, proverbs project, brave new schools, critical literacy skills, electronic discussion groups, teaching partnerships, transformative pedagogy, literacy crisis, partner classes, coercive relations, intergenerational learning, distant colleagues, accelerated schools, national postal service, educational networking, networked resources, cultural illiteracy, progressive pedagogy, cultural packages, folk games Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, The Contemporary, World Wide Web, Celestin Freinet, Modern School Movement, North American, Genocide Project, Middle East, Puerto Rico, Veli Joze, San Francisco, University of California, Department of Education, Mario Lodi, Sherman School, Cold Spring Harbor High, Cooperative Education Movement, Quebec City, Day of the Dead, Latin America, Library of Congress, Pump Project, San Diego New!
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- Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist (Critical Psychology Series) by Lois Holzman on page 151, and Back Matter
- Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker on page 34, and page 103
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