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Digital schools : how technology can transform education / Darrell M. West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Darrell M., 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational technology.
- Education--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Education.
- Internet in education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 159 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nearly a century ago, famed educator John Dewey said that ""if we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."" That wisdom resonates more strongly than ever today, and that maxim underlies this insightful look at the present and future of education in the digital age.As Darrell West makes clear, today's educational institutions must reinvent themselves to engage students successfully and provide them with the skills needed to compete in an increasingly global, technological, and online world. Otherwise the American education system will continue to fall woefully
- Contents:
- New models of education
- Personalized learning
- Blogs, wikis, and social media
- Video games and augmented reality
- Real-time student assessment
- Evaluating teachers
- Distance learning
- Nontraditional students
- Dewey's exhortation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582669
- 9781280487439
- 1280487437
- 9780815722458
- 0815722451
- OCLC:
- 794671668
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