Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools Paperback – October 1, 2011

"Teaching Minds is a thoughtful contribution to the vital conversation about the future of American education and the ways contemporary science can enhance our practice."

―Journal of Education

"(Schank) rejects many 'truths' held by today's educators and politicians…the author believes society is better served when the focus is on improving the conceptual, analytical, and social processes of the individual rather than on acquiring factual knowledge."

―Foreword Magazine

"With stark honesty and a sharp focus on research, Schank has written a provocative, convincing, and useful book about the design of cognitively based learning experiences that can be applied to real contexts…Teaching Minds can undoubtedly help individual teachers, professors, leaders, and curriculum design teams to transform learning experiences for students at all levels."

―Education Canada

“Professor Roger Schank has long been one of the world’s most innovative thinkers about education. This book is the culmination of his lifetime of thinking about teaching and learning. Although I’ve known Roger for over 20 years, I’ve learned a lot from this book and I know that you will too.”
―Ray Bareiss, Professor and Director of Educational Programs, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

“Finally, some FRESH thinking about teaching and learning. You will come away understanding what’s wrong with how we teach today and what an effective pedagogy looks like. If you care about education, you will love, love, love this book!”
―Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan

“Roger’s insights tend to be a decade or two ahead of the insights of others. You can find his insights in current machine translation technologies, recommender systems, game-based learning environments, on-line courses, and even intelligence-gathering systems. The insights in this book are likely to be equally prescient and enduring.”
―Janet L. Kolodner, Regents' Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Roger Schank shows that we can learn more by concrete challenge and disagreement than through disinterested lectures and gingerly put abstractions.” ―Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

“Professor Roger Schank has long been one of the world’s most innovative thinkers about education. This book is the culmination of his lifetime of thinking about teaching and learning. Although I’ve known Roger for over 20 years, I’ve learned a lot from this book and I know that you will too.”


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Ray Bareiss
, Professor and Director of Educational Programs, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

“Finally, some FRESH thinking about teaching and learning. You will come away understanding what’s wrong with how we teach today and what an effective pedagogy looks like. If you care about education, you will love, love, love this book!”


—
Elliot Soloway
, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan

“Roger’s insights tend to be a decade or two ahead of the insights of others. You can find his insights in current machine translation technologies, recommender systems, game-based learning environments, on-line courses, and even intelligence-gathering systems. The insights in this book are likely to be equally prescient and enduring.”


—
Janet L. Kolodner
, Regents' Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Roger Schank shows that we can learn more by concrete challenge and disagreement than through disinterested lectures and gingerly put abstractions.” —
Jonathan Zittrain
, Professor of Law and Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University