Title
Education 2.0 : the learningweb revolution and the transformation of the school / Leonard J. Waks.
ISBN
9781612050355 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1612050352 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781612052885 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1612052886 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781612052892 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1612052894 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1612050360
9781612050362
Published
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]
Language
English
Description
xvi, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
LB1044.87 .W35 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.33/44678
Summary
Thirty years of spirited school reforms have failed to improve our schools and instead have left our public school systems in disarray. Meanwhile, employment prospects for high school and college graduates are fading, and the public is losing faith in its schools. The education paradigm inherited from the Industrial Era is in crisis. In the last decade, however, the Internet and new Web 2.0 technologies have placed the entirety of human knowledge in the hands of everyone. What will our educational institutions make of this unprecedented flood of Web-based learning resources? How can schools be transformed to accommodate the new possibilities for personal and social learning?
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Young people
Education and change
High schools
School failure I: academic underperformance and inefficiency
School failure II: social irrelevance and loss of political legitimacy
The Internet and the world wide web
Web 2.0 and the net culture
The learningweb
The web in the school
New visions
Complex organizations
Open learning centers
Clash of paradigms
The learningweb revolution
What needs to be done.
