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Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learningAs 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 Ch...more
Hardcover, 296 pages
Published
July 6th 2010
by Jossey-Bass
(first published June 18th 2010)
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I read this as part of an eBook club sponsored by our DOE. What I liked most about it was the exhaustive footnotes, many complete with links, and separate list of recommended sites in the back. For a topic like this, I think it's very important that you "show, not tell". I think one of the best advantages of technology (that we don't use enough) is sharing success stories, great ideas, great teaching. I've been on the receiving end of so many great teaching ideas, especially at professional conf...more
Drawing on decades of extensive experience exploring effective education (that's enough "e" words for the moment!), Milton Chen presents the most cogent, articulate, and practical vision for "creating the new world of learning."
Presenting "six leading edges of innovation" for education, Chen backs up his edges with myriad rich examples and even more follow up resources.
If I were in charge of the world, I'd use this book as a basis for collaborative inquiry with groups of educators and learners...more
Presenting "six leading edges of innovation" for education, Chen backs up his edges with myriad rich examples and even more follow up resources.
If I were in charge of the world, I'd use this book as a basis for collaborative inquiry with groups of educators and learners...more
Milton Chen's Education Nation gets two stars for his detailed compilation of education ideas. The problem with many of these ideas and theories is that there's no evidence that says spending billions on devices or computers will indeed lead to anything more than comfortable students and wealthier tech companies. He claims schools are locked in a time capsule from thirty years ago, but then in the same paragraph a few sentences later says schools in the 70s were actually better. Which one is it?...more
Milton Chen lays our a compelling vision of school reform. His construct makes great sense and he aligns the visions with examples, including my own organization, The National Academy Foundation. This makes an excellent guidepost of changes in public policy and practice.
Half-way through the book I realized the author has never been it teacher. He's a cheerleader for every project-based or high-teach teaching idea he's ever heard of. Some of those ideas are good ones, but the book seemed uncritical and not all that thoughtful.
What I liked about Education Nation is what I disliked about it – namely, someone without experience inside the public education system writing about it without regard for the limitations that system currently has in place. He's able to point to many exciting innovations and be inspiringly imaginative. However, while he acknowledges the restraints that the system has that hinders such innovation, he really fails to address them. Perhaps that's someone else's job; he's just the "idea man." He see...more
Any educator or child advocate will love this. Mr. Chen looks into the future and challenge as old-timers to think futuristic. What if we can send our children to a school where they WANT to go back to school?
A moderately interesting book about the future of education. Nothing especially novel here, but echoing other recent books on the subject, offers plenty of suggestions for how to improve our education system.
This is a great book on how we need to teach children that learn is fun. Schools should should use the new technology to teach children that learning should be project based instead of lecture based.
Must reading for all educators and politicians and parents. Our education system is antiquated and the time is now for change that will connect the world to students and learning to their brain.
How education is changing - makes you wish you could go back to one of the schools or programs he describes.
I read this for a book discussion for work. The author included a lot of examples, which I thought I would like, but I didn't really find them helpful. I think the main points of this book could have been gotten across much more concisely in a ten page article. The writing style is definitely academic and I did not find it engaging.
Next book that LP Parents Read is reading ... should be interesting.
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