Anti-Education Era Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning

Name: Anti-Education Era Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning
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ISBN: 9780230342095

ISBN-10: 0230342094

ISBN-13: 9780230342095

Edition: 2013

Authors: James Paul Gee

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The future of schooling looks to be a multibillion dollar business where technology is used to individualize education for every student. Through all this personalized learning we are creating echo chambers of our own thoughts and creating further inequity. Renowned education expert and author ofWhat Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and LiteracyJames Paul Gee argues all this does not auger well for individuals or societies facing global challenges. Gee shows that the solution—and perhaps even our survival—lies in what he calls synchronized intelligence, a way of organizing people and their digital tools to solve problems, produce knowledge, and create innovation in a world…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Social Linguistics and Literacies, a foundational work in the field of New Literacy Studies, and Why Video Games Are Good For Your Soul.



Preface



Orwell's Question: Why Are Humans So Stupid?



How to be Stupid



Short-Circuiting the Circuit of Human Reflective Action



The Limits of Human Memory



Mental Comfort Stories



Lack of Context



Lack of Experience



Pitfalls along Our Search for Status and Solidarity



Words Gone Awry



Lack of Agency



Institutions and Frozen Thought



Fact-Free Stories That Sound Good



Imagined Kin



Lonely Groups of One



When Not to Trust Experts



Evading Knowledge



Flight from Complexity



How to Get Smart Before it's Too Late



Inclusive We: How We Can All Get Smarter Together



Big Minds, Not Little Minds



Mind Visions and New, Better Worlds



Synchronized Intelligence: Getting Our Minds and Tools in Synch



Interlude to Forestall Possible Misunderstandings



Getting Smarter Before It's Too Late


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Index