[MACEP] New free book from Information Age Education

[David Moursund]

Education for Students' Futures

 Education for Students’ Futures is a new free 116-page book edited by David Moursund and Robert Sylwester, and published by Information Age Education. The intended audience is preservice and inservice K-12 teachers, teachers of teachers, parents of school-age children, and others interested in our educational system. The book has multiple authors, although Moursund and Sylwester together have written well over half of the chapters.

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The book's 22 chapters are arranged into four sections that describe major societal changes from the Industrial Revolution to the expected Technological Singularity (some time in the future in when computers will be smarter than humans).

Part 1: The Concept of External Cognition

Introduction

The First Machine Age

The Second Machine Age

The Coming Technological Singularity

Education for the Coming Technological Singularity

Part 2: Cognition Begins with Attention

Self-Assessment Can Help Students to Become More Responsible for Their Own Education

Mastery Learning and Authentic Assessment

Attention in an Increasingly Distractive World

Developing Abilities to Cope with and Reduce Distraction

The Problem Is Not the Cell Phone

The Administrative Role in Interactive Instruction

Part 3: Human Brain and Computer Brain

Conscious and Unconscious Response—a Cognitive Neuroscientist's Perspective

The Future of the Mind —A Theoretical physicist's Perspective

Introduction to the Future of Teaching Machines

The Teaching Machine Is Both Tool and Teacher

Innovating Minds—What Students Need for the Future

Part 4: Explorations that Look Toward Future Possibilities

Folk Computing and Folk Mathing

The Role of Video Games in the Education of Young People

Sugata Mitra's Thoughts on the Future of Learning

Writing as an Important Challenge in Adult Education

Diane Ackerman on The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

The Future through Quotations

 Dave Moursund
Emeritus Professor
University of Oregon

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