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Summary
"Just as kids await the next Harry Potter installment, so do business leaders look for Clayton M. Christensen's next offering."- Inc. Magazine
The business book of the year-a long-awaited lesson in innovation from the legendary Harvard Business School professor...
With his blockbuster bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton M. Christensen created the classic model for growth and change in corporations and cultures. Now, taking a cue from Bill Gates' 2005 critique of the American school system, he applies his theory of "disruptive innovation" to a much-needed evolution in educational technologies-offering new opportunities and challenges for the business community. Christensen brilliantly shows how tomorrow's innovations in education will change the way the world learns-and what businesses can do to meet those changing demands today.
Clayton M. Christensen's books are:
"REQUIRED READING."- BusinessWeek
"ABSORBING."- The New York Times
"THOUGHTFUL."- Fortune
"BRILLIANT."-Michael R. Bloomberg
Author Notes
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is co-founder of Innosight, a management consultancy, Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm, and Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank. Christenen is the author or coauthor of five books including the New York Times bestsellers The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution . He serves as a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Michael B. Horn is a cofounder and Executive Director of Innosight Institute. He holds an AB from Yale and an MBA from Harvard.
Curtis W. Johnson is a writer and consultant who has served as a college president, head of a public policy research organization, and chief of staff to governor Arne Carlson of Minnesota. Johnson and his colleagues were among the early proponents of what has become the chartered school movement.
Reviews 2
Publisher's Weekly Review
It's no secret that people learn in different ways, so why, the authors of this book ask, "can't schools customize their teaching?" The current system, "designed for standardization," must by its nature ignore the individual needs of each student. The answer to this problem, the authors argue, is "disruptive innovation," a principle introduced (and initially applied to business) by Harvard Business School professor Christensen in The Innovator's Dilemma. The idea is that an audience in need will benefit from even a faulty opportunity to fulfill that need; in education, the demand for individual instruction could be met through infinitely customizable online computer-based instruction. The authors, all professionals in education, present a solution to the ills of standardized education that's visionary but far-fetched; even they admit that their recommendations would be extremely difficult to implement in current school systems. Still, the authors' unusual case, though occasionally bogged down in tangents, is worthy reading for school administrators, teachers, parents and, perhaps most of all, software developers. Charts. (June) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
Choice Review
This book is a must read for every educator and policy maker. It promotes a "disruptive" model of teaching and learning for public schools to follow. Christensen (business administration, Harvard Business School), Horn (executive director, Education Innosight Institute), and Johnson (former chief of staff, Governor Arne Carlson) argue that for students to excel in school, they have to be extrinsically or intrinsically motivated. Economically developed countries are at a stage where extrinsic motivational factors are not relevant anymore, since these societies have passed the economic hardship stage. Therefore, students need to be intrinsically motivated to study hard sciences (i.e., physics, mathematics, and engineering). The pathway to success is for schools to move away from standardization--one model fits all--to a more student-centered approach to teaching and learning. Technology, computers in particular, can play a "disruptive" role in student-centered learning. How such a change can be brought about and which "teams" are able to bring it about are questions to be answered by school administrators and policy makers. This book provides controversial insights as to how schooling in the US can be made more appealing to students. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections. F. Abboushi Felician College
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Randall Circle High School | p. 19 |
| Chapter 1 Why Schools Struggle to Teach Differently When Each Student Learns Differently | p. 21 |
| Chapter 2 Making the Shift: Schools Meet Society's Needs | p. 43 |
| Chapter 3 Crammed Classroom Computers | p. 71 |
| Chapter 4 Disruptively Deploying Computers | p. 89 |
| Chapter 5 The System for Student-Centric Learning | p. 121 |
| Chapter 6 The Impact of the Earliest Years on Students' Success | p. 147 |
| Chapter 7 Improving Education Research | p. 159 |
| Chapter 8 Forging a Consensus for Change | p. 179 |
| Chapter 9 Giving Schools the Right Structure to Innovate | p. 197 |
| Conclusion | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 231 |
