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Dewey Decimal Number: 370.285
EAN num: 9780761977124
ISBN number: 0761977120
Label: Corwin Press
Manufacturer: Corwin Press
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Page Count: 160
Printing Date: September 27, 2000
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Foreword by David D. Thornburg
Windows on the Future was designed to help the educator cope with changes created by technology and embrace a new mindset necessary to acess the burgeoning technological advances. McCain and Jukes offer new paradigms and frameworks to keep schools and students relevant in the 21st Century.
Critical issues explored include:
- Key trends for the new millennium
- The power of paradigm
- Education in the future
- New skills for students
- New roles for educators
- The need for vision
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While I understand the point made by other reviewers in terms of the book being outdated due to the very arguments presented by McCain and Jukes (the exponential rate of change), I still feel that this book should be read by all educators. The points covered are presented in clear terms with excellent examples and in a way that all can understand. I read this book for a class and then used it with my own students (teachers)who experienced an 'awakening' of sorts while reading the book. Many places around the world have been slow to change - the 'blue whales' which McCain and Jukes refer to as examples of people or things that take a longer time to change. So this book was extremely enlightening for the teachers who work in a very remote Pacific island area where teaching methods have changed very little with the teacher still being the 'giver' of information. The concepts covered can challenge the minds or paradigm. As stated by the authors, "{The education system} cannot continue to get better at delivering an obsolete education" (p. 74). Statements such as these present excellent forums for discusion among educators.
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The book offers some insight into the future of education. However, the authors are victims of their paradigm since the book was obsolete as soon as it was printed. It is an easy read and does provide some food for thought.
Windows on the Future: Education in the Age of Technology
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How many times can I say pompous?
These authors have so inflated their egos that I can not imagine sharing a room with them. I certainly would not want to share an office or any job with them.
The authors love "technology" - and that can be a good thing.
However, they so completely mix up the means and the ends.
In teaching a well educated student is the "ends" or our product. Give me a tent and something to scrawl on and a good teacher will put out a good product: a well educated student.
Technology is a tool we can use. Just like any other tool when people see someone using it, AND it improves the job in some manner they will switch over to the new method.
The emphasis on technology is wasteful. All, yes 100%, of the information this book is devoted to can be picked up by anyone in a single semester course.
This is from a teacher who: always uses an electronic grade book, posts assignments and other information on my web page, has converted almost all of my lectures into PowerPoint presentations filled with pictures, QuickTime video shorts, links to current events in the news. My students have assignments which require internet research. Some of their assignments they can acess from anywhere (on vacation in New Zealand!), at any time, with or with out partners, and can use a wide variety of resources.
My students score well on state tests, actually really well. However, with no "technology" (a tent and some chalk and slates) they will still do well.
Let's not confuse the tools with the real job, and these tools are VERY easy to learn.
If it makes sense people will do it, use it - if not - they SHOULD not.
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While I liked the book, and certainly agreed with much the authors said, I found little new (but I'm a techie, so others shouldn't be turned away from it on that account.). It's a really good book for teachers who are being inundated with technology and feeling a bit uncomfortable with that. The authors share their wisdom and experience, for our benefit.
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This book is excellent. I had to read it as part of the teacher credential program. It is a really easy, plain English book. The content is excellent. It describes where we have been, where we are, and where we will be in terms of technology and how that will impact education. It is not about teaching technology to our students, but about changing the entire way we think about education and using technology to our best advantage. It is about our responsibility to our students to prepare them for the quickly changing world in which we live. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in education.
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