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Summary
Summary
An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning
As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks-and teachers locked away in classrooms. In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience in media-from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation-to support a vision for a new world of learning.
This book, in six chapters, explores the "edges" in education--the places where K-12 learning has already seen revolutionary changes through innovative reform and the use of technology.
Examines ways in which learning can be revolutionized through innovative reform and the use of technology Explores the ever-expanding world of technology for breakthroughs in teaching and learning Includes many wonderful resources to support innovation in schools across the nationThis important book offers a clear vision for tomorrow's classrooms that will enhance learning opportunities for all children.
Author Notes
Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director emeritus of The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). He was founding director of the KQED Center for Education (PBS) in San Francisco, managing the channel's television programming, Web content, and outreach services for schools and families. Chen was also a director of research at Sesame Workshop, in New York, working on Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact, and an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Choice Review
The daily news is full of stories about failing schools. Less attention is paid to schools working at the leading edges of innovation and reform. Chen (executive director emer., George Lucas Educational Foundation) provides clear, specific examples of schools that are redefining teaching and learning using 21st-century media, technology, and pedagogy. Chen provides a much needed and accessible new vision for public education. Education Nation consists of six chapters in which Chen identifies the key "edges" of innovation in education: thinking, curriculum, technology, time/place, teaching, and youth edges. Throughout each chapter, Chen offers vivid profiles of over 100 schools, highlighting innovative teaching practices that include project-based learning, community involvement, cooperative learning, student engagement, and performance-based assessment. While he offers prescriptions for change, the value of the book is in his profiles of teachers and schools engaged in innovation. Chen portrays teaching and learning, guided by integrated technologies, no longer defined by students chained to desks and textbooks and teachers locked inside traditional schools. Chen offers new possibilities for much-maligned public schools. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and undergraduate students. P. S. Kelly Truman State University
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface: My Learning Journey: From The Longest Street In The World To A Galaxy Long Ago And Far, Far Away | p. xv |
| Introduction: The Vision of an Education Nation | p. 1 |
| 1 The Thinking Edge: Getting Smarter About Learning | p. 11 |
| 2 The Curriculum Edge: Real Learning and Authentic Assessment | p. 35 |
| 3 The Technology Edge: Putting Modern Tools in Young Hands | p. 87 |
| 4 The Time/Place Edge: Learning Any Time, Anywhere | p. 139 |
| 5 The Co-Teaching Edge: Teachers, Experts, and Parents as Coeducators | p. 189 |
| 6 The Youth Edge: Digital Learners Carrying Change in Their Pockets | p. 213 |
| Afterword: Tomorrow's Edge, A 2020 Vision | p. 241 |
| Notes | p. 354 |
| Selected Web Stites | p. 368 |
| About The Author | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 277 |
