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Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning And Information Are Everywhere (2012)

by Will Richardson(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

TED Conferences

review 1: While I completely agree with the authors goal for reformed education, I felt that he had a very one sided, middle class view on what education should be, and how it should be implemented. He challenges teachers to use technology and the abundance of information and learning potential it holds while barely taking notice of the wide array of students in our educational system, for whom technology and the information it holds is not abundant. For a school with resources - good teachers and the support staff - to realize this goal, his ideas of what cooperative learning should look like are beautiful. But to move forward with his proposed educational system, or country needs to take a far bigger issue of failing school - ones that do not have an abundance of teachers, technol... moreogy and collective knowledge.Overall he did a very good job of recognizing a problem and goal but missed the solution, something he could have done in far fewer pages.
review 2: I read this book as a supplement to studying in a MOOC (massive, open, online course), eLearning and Digital Cultures by the University of Edinburgh via Coursera.org. It's very relevant to read it now as I am homeschooling my six year old son and bewildered by all the options and how to instill in him a genuine love of learning.I agree with Will Richardson that things need to change. Traditional education no longer addresses what students of this day and age need. But how to navigate? What structures, if any, will help both me and my son? He gives good starting points like the example projects he cites wherein the learner collaborates with others to answer important questions and create real solutions or present meaningful frameworks for the question. less

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