How to prepare students for the information age and global marketplace : creative learning in action / Lyn Lesch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lesch, Lyn, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

viii, 131 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008.

Summary:

How to Prepare Students for the Information Age and Global Marketplace examines how the structure of schools might be changed so that students in their formative years are able to learn in a manner that allows them to be more creative. The modern world is shrinking as technology and connectivity create new ways to live, communicate, and do business. Education and learning must follow suit. In this regard, the book focuses on such key issues as the process of actually learning how to learn; the sort of changing relationship between teacher and student which needs to occur if students are to learn more creatively; the development of a new set of skills, particularly that of students developing their own learning progressions in approaching various subject matter; and a greater connection between school and the world of adult expertise. The world is changing; so to must the way we educate our students.

Contents:

Introduction

Learning in the information age

A new paradigm

Learning how to learn

Information, knowledge, and learning

Changes in the modern classroom

Paths of learning

Teacher and student

New skills for the information age

A different accountability

Seamless education

The role of parents

The future of schooling

About the author.

ISBN:

9781578866953

9781578866960

1578866952

1578866960

OCLC:

173182581