six leading edges of innovation in our schools Chen, Milton. creator text bibliography cau San Francisco Jossey-Bass c2010 2010 monographic eng

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xxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. "In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience in media--from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his current role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation--to support his vision for a new world of learning. Presented in five parts and divided into "module" chapters, this book examines the ways in which K-12 learning can be revolutionized through innovative reform and the use of technology. Due in large part to new technologies, over the last few decades we've witnessed a huge shift in how we imagine teaching and learning. A good example is the educational revolution sparked by Sesame Street--which in its first season had a goal of teaching preschool-age children the numbers 1 to 10. At the time, experts dismissed it as an unrealistic goal since many kindergarten students were having trouble mastering this simple counting. Yet the research proved that preschool-age children learned those skills and many others directly from the TV screen. Now Sesame Street's curriculum teaches the numbers from 1 to 40. In today's digital age the number of new ways to teach and learn is ever-expanding and includes: television, Google, YouTube, TeacherTube, Facebook, iPhones, video games, GPS devices, open source textbooks, interactive whiteboards; and there are countless examples of ways technology positively impacts student learning--from voice-recognition software that helps children learn to read to translation tools that help teachers communicate with non-English speaking parents. As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're quickly moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks--and teachers locked away in classrooms."-- Milton Chen ; foreword by George Lucas. Includes bibliographical references and index. School improvement programs United States Educational innovations United States Educational technology United States LB2822.82 .C434 2010 371.2/090973 9780470615065 (hardback) 0470615060 (hardback) 9781118157404 (paperback) 9780470875438 (ebk) 9780470875445 (ebk) 9780470875452 (ebk) 2010011067 DLC 100316 20170330135549.0 16137569