By Milton Chen
Content material:
Chapter 1 The pondering side: Getting Smarter approximately studying (pages 11–34):
Chapter 2 The Curriculum side: actual studying and real evaluation (pages 35–85):
Chapter three The know-how aspect: placing sleek instruments in younger arms (pages 87–138):
Chapter four The Time/Place area: studying Any Time, at any place (pages 139–188):
Chapter five The Co?Teaching side: academics, specialists, and fogeys as Coeducators (pages 189–212):
Chapter 6 The adolescence aspect: electronic rookies sporting swap of their wallet (pages 213–239):
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We instinctively use the correct mindset when we think about sports and the arts. We just need to apply those views to education. From Dewey to Duncan Chicago, Illinois John Dewey is often referred to as the father of the progressive education movement for his advocacy of child-centered teaching and connecting ‘‘school life’’ to real life. John Mergendoller of the Buck Institute for Education calls him ‘‘St. ’’ I like to connect Dewey to the history of his time and his arrival in the 1890s as a young professor of philosophy and the thinking edge psychology from New York at a newly created University of Chicago.
Teachers are vital in a student-centered classroom, but they play a different role when technology is the platform for content and collaboration. Students’ heads are connected to their hearts. Both need to be engaged for productive student learning. (continued) 24 education nation Turning Ten Either/Or Debates into Both-And Syntheses (continued) EITHER OR BOTH-AND: THE SMARTER SYNTHESIS Learning in nature Learning with technology Reading Media and technology Face-to-face instruction Online learning Twenty-firstcentury skills Core curriculum Enjoyment in learning Hard work of learning Understanding the natural world involves collecting and analyzing data.
A yellow haired boy flings up his hand. A tearful boy with a crew cut pulls away from Carolyn Wilson’s embrace, resisting forgiveness. A doleful little girl nestles in the curve of Carolyn’s body. ’’8 This experience was one of many that led Leonard to call for a radical change in schooling. After writing trenchant pieces for Look, Leonard compiled his ideas in a 1968 book whose title married two words rarely spoken together, before or since: Education and Ecstasy. He wrote: The most common mode of instruction today, as in the Renaissance, has a teacher sitting or standing before a number of students in a single room, presenting them with facts and techniques of a verbal-rational nature.
