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Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America (Technology, Education--Connections (The TEC Series)) 1st Edition

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The digital revolution has hit education, with more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired world. But are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today’s Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Have schools fallen through the crack of the digital divide? In Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the knowledge revolution has transformed our jobs, our homes, our lives, and therefore must also transform our schools. Much like after the school-reform movement of the industrial revolution, our society is again poised at the edge of radical change. To keep pace with a globalized technological culture, we must rethink how we educate the next generation or America will be “left behind.” This groundbreaking book offers a vision for the future of American education that goes well beyond the walls of the classroom to include online social networks, distance learning with “anytime, anywhere” access, digital home schooling models, video-game learning environments, and more.

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Customers find the book informative and well-written. They say it provokes thought and challenges its readers to be active participants. The book outlines how education is changing and the ways it should be changing. It provides great examples to understand the material, making it an excellent resource for learning about the technology era that exists today. Readers mention the book has direct implications for curriculum design and assessment practices.

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Customers find the book easy to read and informative. They say it's a good foundational text for teachers, with clear explanations and examples to understand the material. The book clearly outlines the pros and cons of integrating technology in the classroom.

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  • Stewart MacLean
    5.0 out of 5 stars Presenting Today's Situation - Highly Reccomend
    Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2011
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    Collins and Halverson have great depth in the area of education reform. This book not only reviews education's past, it also describes today's present situation in with digital natives being taught by digital immigrants, and it ends with recommendations for education's future.

    Despite the diversity that exists within our boundaries, America has always sought to give equality to its fellow man (or woman). Even the Civil War could not destroy this vision. Today's technology age now has the ability to create a "digital divide" because of access to technology, wealth, and race (p. 108). Additionally, as parents become more involved in their children's education they may shelter their children from arts or philosophies that rival their personal beliefs while investing personal money in improving their skills in other areas, hence, increasing the gap between groups of people based on religion and socio-economic status. It has also been noted that the increase in technology also has seen a rise in isolation and depression among technology users. Despite the negatives, the race for education is fierce. Students using technology are more engaged, driven, and have autonomy over their education. Corporation competition is also heating up making a competitive market in tutoring, educational resources, and private schooling. This will only serve to improve education for students. Computers can also individualize education which will help all students, not just those with special needs or those who are gifted. Parents will become more involved in their children's education, a problem that has plagued public education for a long time. With the Internet, students have access to knowledge 24/7. They don't need to hear about studies when they can watch them live or research a topic of their choice. There are positives and negatives to this new wave of technology that has taken education by force.

    Collins and Halverson (2009) feel today's youth are already using technology and our current direction with standardized scores driving education is only serving to increase the achievement gap. Two of the ideas discussed are national certification and skill based assessment systems. By creating smaller certifications that are nationally recognized students would have autonomy when it comes to which certification tests they take, when they take the tests, and the topics to research. Skill based assessment systems would utilize computer adaptive technology to rate student ability levels. Combine national certification and interactive testing abilities with a student selected curriculum and you revolutionize a K-12 education into a useful set of skills once graduated. Students will have a resume of nationally recognized certificates when they graduate. This motivation factor has the capability to encourage students to stay in school and lessen the achievement gap.

    Furthermore, change among the way schools do business on a daily basis is on the brink of change. As new technologies take form and creative curriculum's come into existence, the way students learn in a traditional classroom is being challenged. Society and the workforce are moving ahead digitally but yet in many classrooms we expect our children to learn in classrooms void of newer technology. We expect kids to put away their own digital devices and learn in the same way their grandparents learned. This is doing our current generation a disservice. Our children's social network is far more advanced than that of their parents. Their interests and pop culture icons are always at their fingertips. Their sophisticated network far outreaches that of other generations. Children and gaming now go hand in hand. These children are developing critical thinking and problem solving skills much faster than originally thought, their language and communication skills are developing more rapidly than earlier generations. Yet our schools have not all caught on to this phenomenon. It is time to tap into the wide array of possibilities that lie ahead for our students and realize the great potential that is at our fingertips.

    Collins and Halverson give the overall picture of how technology is changing technology. This book comes highly recommended.

    Collins, A. & Halverson, R. (2009). Rethinking education in the age of technology. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
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  • Jose Ernesto Passos
    4.0 out of 5 stars Thinking about education in the XXI Century
    Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2010
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    Collins and Halverson started a major discussion. The book is very nice to read, but it will not be the last major book on this subject.
    I liked the book, because it introduced me to several ideas about the history of American Education. Specially, ideas sponsored by Horace Mann in the XIX century. As I read the book I perceived that a few things are missing in the discussion, but this does not diminishes the value of the book. This book is important to read and most of the reviews are praising the qualities of the book, so I decided to concentrate my review on items that I think are missing or overlooked.

    My first observation is that the authors emphasize the impact of gaming and video technology in the future of education. Looks like they are overwhelmed by the idea of using these technologies to improve education. The fact that young people use computers easily is a tribute to the designers of the programs and machines that are being used by all types of consumers. Using a computer is not different than using a telephone. Using a machine is not the same as designing and conceptualizing this sophisticated products. (We must keep the skills to do this... or we will be servants of the technology).

    The impact of several technologies like the TV, gaming technology, computers, cell phones are praised, but is missing the impact that the time spent using the same technologies unproductively by people throughout the globe is huge. Everywhere, man and woman are forgetting the people who are close to them, like their families and real friends, and instead of communicating with whom we live for an interaction with a machine or machines (like seeing TV shows, surfing the internet...). I think the best critical view on this, is expressed by the cartoon WALL-E. Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition) It is important to observe this, because education is the way for us to tame the current technology and make it our servant, and not make everybody dependent on it as if it is a type of drug.
    Interaction with the real world is necessary, if we don't pay attention to adolescents, they will find something to do with their time, that is not boring, like getting a drug addiction!

    Collins and Halverson identify many trends in social behavior that are global today and they are not specific to one country, like the idea that one person will pursue many careers during its productive lifetime. This is not new, this has been happening since the sixties (at least). They identify some of the causes behind this, specially the dislocation of jobs that is related to outsourcing and technological change. This is an important trend, because this is deeply related to a major trend in education identified by the authors, we are in an era of lifetime learning and education. Many people that went through the old school system did adapt well to these conditions in the last 30 years or so. This is a hint that the education problem is not addressed by applying technology and new teaching methods derived from new technologies but preparing people with concepts that are more general and not tied to a specific technology, so that an individual has a frame of reference to learn new techniques, new theories and also be prepared to judge what is the right trend to follow.

    The authors concentrated their attention on the possibilities that technology can do to improve education, but missing is the fact that from the 60's until today several techniques were developed to analyze problems so that we could implement computer programs to solve routine problems. These techniques should be better known by teachers and professors because they can be used as part of education. Examples, structured systems analysis and specification, specification or program walkthroughs, program testing methodology. These techniques combined with better knowledge of how the human brain works could help improve the tools that we use for studying and learning. These techniques should be part of disciplines to improve our analytical capabilities and thinking processes.

    The other important trend, is one that some thinkers use as a method to be creative, they move away from computer/digital technology and work with pencil and white paper. They will use computers only in the final part, when they will implement the solution. They use simple old concepts that will help the human brain function in its plenitude and produce better results. See for example, a book like Presentation Zen.Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

    The fact that today we can keep zillions of data stored in all types of media and that we can access a lot of facts through several devices, raises new questions. What is important to learn? What shall be the purpose of education in the future? How we keep our capacity of advancing human knowledge when there are so many frontiers to pursue? What should be the human values that we have to instill in the future generations? What kind of impact the lack of parental/teacher attention and excessive use of computerized devices are having on individuals? Some of these questions were raised in the book. The authors did not explore in depth the question of what is important for the newer generations to learn during their education. They mentioned a study by the Labor Dept, the SCANS report, but did not explore it in depth.

    I think that Horace Mann had a clear purpose for the task of education in America in the XIX century: to prepare new citizens for a new democracy.
    I think the main thing that is missing in this discussion is the identification of the new philosophy behind education in our times. If we identify our objectives better we will find our way. What kind of society we want in the future? How can one participate in the decisions of strategy and policies that will impact all of us?
    How our societies will function?
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  • Mr. Paul Hopkins
    4.0 out of 5 stars Where do we go from here ....
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2012
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    This book raised some key and important issues as we consider the changes in education that technology is demanding over the next period of time. It is well balanced looking at the arguments from the enthusiasts and the cynics and considers the way in which technology changes the "space" and the "chronosity" of educative practice as well as the "one size fits all" model which is prevalent in current educational practice. If you are working in the field of education and think that you will be for the next 10+ years then this is a book worth reading.
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