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The anti-education era : creating smarter students through digital learning /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gee, James Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Computer-assisted instruction > United States.
Education > Effect of technological innovations on.
Digital communications.
Education > Aims and objectives.
Educational leadership.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Orwell's question: why are humans so stupid? PART I: How to be stupid: Short-circuiting the circuit of human reflective action
  • The limits of human memory
  • Mental comfort stories
  • Lack of context
  • Lack of experience
  • Pitfalls along our search for status and solidarity
  • Words gone awry
  • Lack of agency
  • Institutions and frozen thought
  • Fact-free stories that sound good
  • Imagined kin
  • Lonely groups of one
  • When not to trust experts
  • Evading knowledge
  • Flight from complexity. PART II: How to get smart before it's too late: Inclusive we: how we can all get smarter together
  • Big minds, not little minds
  • Mind visions and new, better worlds
  • Synchronized intelligence: getting our minds and tools in synch
  • Interlude to forestall possible misunderstandings
  • Getting smarter before it's too late.