ISBN:
9780415581431
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1283103265
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9780415581424
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9781283103268
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9781136728228
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 181 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Learning Futures : Education, Technology and Social Change
DDC:
306.43
Keywords:
Education
;
Social change
;
Technology
;
Schools
;
Cyberspace - Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In the twenty-first century educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of education.?Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation and socio-technical change, working with educators, researchers, digital industries, students and policy-makers, this book questions
Description / Table of Contents:
Learning Futures: Education, technology and social change; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Education, technology and the future; Thinking about 'the future'; Relationships between social and technological change; How can we rewrite the relationship between education and the future?; Key assumptions; Outline of the book; Chapter 1 Is there a future for schools?; Educating the 'new millennials' and 'digital natives'; Competition and fragmentation; A new educational ecology; Learning and working; The disappearing school?; In defence of a school
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter2 A new generational contractThe standard model of childhood; 'Digital natives' and 'lifelong learners'; Ageing populations and beanpole families; Salesman, disciplinarian or competitor: what role for adults?; A new contract between generations; Chapter3 Being human; Improving on evolution?; The non-forgetting human; When biology meets computing; Counter-measures; Diversity and interdependence; Chapter4 Collective, embodied and dangerous knowledge; Collective intelligence; Stewarding the knowledge commons; Thinking with the body; From filtering to integration
Description / Table of Contents:
Dealing with dangerous knowledgeDiscernment, responsibility and multiliteracy; Chapter5 Mind the gaps; Disaggregating institutions; Radical polarization; Breakdown: the twenty-first-century canyon; Building living futures; Education intervening in economic futures; Chapter6 Networks, collectives and crowds; New public spaces; Potential tools for social change; False democracies; Democratic futures?; Schools building a quality conversation about the future; Chapter7 A future-building school; Beyond 'future-proofing'; Towards the future-building school
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter8 The future-building school of 2035Front-of-house; Resource mapping; The museum; The common room; The digital layer; The futures game; The staff; Chapter9 Making it real; Educational futures already in development; Nine conditions to enable a future-building schools; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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