A Brief History of the Future of Education

Learning in the Age of Disruption
Ian Jukes - The InfoSavvy21 Group
Ryan L. Schaaf - Notre Dame of Maryland University
A Brief History of the Future of Education
January 2019 | 192 pages | Corwin
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The Future Tense of Teaching in the Digital Age

The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but have we radically changed how we deliver education? Are educators shifting and adapting or stuck in the traditional That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It world?

In this book, educators will be challenged to take action and adapt to a split-screen classroom--thinking and acting to accommodate today’s learners versus allowing traditional practices by default. Written with a touch of humor and a choose-your-own-adventure approach, the authors built chapters to be skimmed, scoured or searched for interesting, relevant or required material. Readers will be able to jump in where it serves them best.

  • Consider predictions about what learning will look like in the future.
  • Understand and learn to leverage nine core learning attributes of digital generations.
  • Discover ten critical roles educators can embrace to remain relevant in the digital age. 

Keep things simple, concentrate on how learners learn, and change your approach from present to future tense.

 

Contents

Foreword By Steve Wozniak

Foreword By Steve Wozniak

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

INTRODUCTION

  • Why This Book Is Called A Brief History of the Future of Education
  • Why Educators Must Adapt
  • How 20th Century Mindsets Impede Learning
  • Creating a Movement
  • How to Approach This Book
  • 1. BEYOND “THAT’S THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT”
  • A Preamble About Five Monkeys
  • Why We Do the Things We Do
  • TTWWADI and School Mindsets
  • Ways to Demonstrate TTWWADI
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 2. WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR OUR STUDENTS
  • An Old Mindset for the Modern World
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 3. LIFE IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
  • How Disruptive Innovation Forces Change
  • Skill Sets in the New Global Economy
  • What All This Change Means for Education
  • Careers in the New Global Economy
  • The Purpose of Education in Modern Times
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 4. THE NINE CORE LEARNING ATTRIBUTES OF DIGITAL GENERATIONS
  • #1 Digital Learners Prefer Receiving Information From Multiple, Hyperlinked Digital Sources
  • #2 Digital Learners Prefer Parallel Processing and Multitasking
  • #3 Digital Learners Prefer Processing Pictures, Sounds, Color, and Video Before They Process Text
  • #4 Digital Learners Prefer to Network and Collaborate Simultaneously With Many Others
  • #5 Digital Learners Unconsciously Read Text on a Page or Screen in a Fast Pattern
  • #6 Digital Learners Prefer Just-in-Time Learning
  • #7 Digital Learners Are Looking for Instant Gratification and Immediate Rewards, as Well as Simultaneously Deferred Gratification and Delayed Rewards
  • #8 Digital Learners Are Transfluent Between Digital and Real Worlds
  • #9 Digital Learners Prefer Learning That Is Simultaneously Relevant, Active, Instantly Useful, and Fun
  • Instruction for the Digital Generations
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 5. HOW TO LOOK BACK TO MOVE FORWARD
  • Examine the Past to Look to the Future
  • Consider the Default Future Versus Taking Action
  • The Biggest Challenges for the Future of Education
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 6 LEARNING IN THE YEAR 2038
  • A Day in the Life of Alice
  • Eleven Predictions of Learning in the Year 2038
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 7 NEW SKILLS FOR MODERN TIMES
  • How We Have It All
  • The Eight Essential Skills of Modern Learning
  • The Path Forward
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 8 NEW ROLES FOR EDUCATORS
  • Role #1: Educators Must Be Future-Focused
  • Role #2: Educators Must Be Lifelong Learners
  • Role #3: Educators Must Be Learning Facilitators, Not Sages on the Stage
  • Role #4: Educators Must Be Expert Generalists, Not Specialists
  • Role #5: Educators Must Embrace Discovery Learning
  • Role #6: Educators Must Enhance Instruction With Real-World Meaning
  • Role #7: Educators Must Broaden the Perspective of the Curriculum
  • Role #8: Educators Must Be Evaluators of the Level of Thought
  • Role #9: Educators Must Teach to the Whole Mind
  • Role #10: Educators Must Use Technology as a Learning Tool
  • Role #11: Educators Must Be Holistic Evaluators
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider

Epilogue

  • Where We Begin
  • The Committed Sardine
  • Questions to Consider

References and Resources

References and Resources

Index

Index

Description

The Future Tense of Teaching in the Digital Age

The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but have we radically changed how we deliver education? Are educators shifting and adapting or stuck in the traditional That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It world?

In this book, educators will be challenged to take action and adapt to a split-screen classroom--thinking and acting to accommodate today’s learners versus allowing traditional practices by default. Written with a touch of humor and a choose-your-own-adventure approach, the authors built chapters to be skimmed, scoured or searched for interesting, relevant or required material. Readers will be able to jump in where it serves them best.

  • Consider predictions about what learning will look like in the future.
  • Understand and learn to leverage nine core learning attributes of digital generations.
  • Discover ten critical roles educators can embrace to remain relevant in the digital age. 

Keep things simple, concentrate on how learners learn, and change your approach from present to future tense.

 

Contents

Foreword By Steve Wozniak

Foreword By Steve Wozniak

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

INTRODUCTION

  • Why This Book Is Called A Brief History of the Future of Education
  • Why Educators Must Adapt
  • How 20th Century Mindsets Impede Learning
  • Creating a Movement
  • How to Approach This Book
  • 1. BEYOND “THAT’S THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT”
  • A Preamble About Five Monkeys
  • Why We Do the Things We Do
  • TTWWADI and School Mindsets
  • Ways to Demonstrate TTWWADI
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 2. WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR OUR STUDENTS
  • An Old Mindset for the Modern World
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 3. LIFE IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
  • How Disruptive Innovation Forces Change
  • Skill Sets in the New Global Economy
  • What All This Change Means for Education
  • Careers in the New Global Economy
  • The Purpose of Education in Modern Times
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 4. THE NINE CORE LEARNING ATTRIBUTES OF DIGITAL GENERATIONS
  • #1 Digital Learners Prefer Receiving Information From Multiple, Hyperlinked Digital Sources
  • #2 Digital Learners Prefer Parallel Processing and Multitasking
  • #3 Digital Learners Prefer Processing Pictures, Sounds, Color, and Video Before They Process Text
  • #4 Digital Learners Prefer to Network and Collaborate Simultaneously With Many Others
  • #5 Digital Learners Unconsciously Read Text on a Page or Screen in a Fast Pattern
  • #6 Digital Learners Prefer Just-in-Time Learning
  • #7 Digital Learners Are Looking for Instant Gratification and Immediate Rewards, as Well as Simultaneously Deferred Gratification and Delayed Rewards
  • #8 Digital Learners Are Transfluent Between Digital and Real Worlds
  • #9 Digital Learners Prefer Learning That Is Simultaneously Relevant, Active, Instantly Useful, and Fun
  • Instruction for the Digital Generations
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 5. HOW TO LOOK BACK TO MOVE FORWARD
  • Examine the Past to Look to the Future
  • Consider the Default Future Versus Taking Action
  • The Biggest Challenges for the Future of Education
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 6 LEARNING IN THE YEAR 2038
  • A Day in the Life of Alice
  • Eleven Predictions of Learning in the Year 2038
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 7 NEW SKILLS FOR MODERN TIMES
  • How We Have It All
  • The Eight Essential Skills of Modern Learning
  • The Path Forward
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 8 NEW ROLES FOR EDUCATORS
  • Role #1: Educators Must Be Future-Focused
  • Role #2: Educators Must Be Lifelong Learners
  • Role #3: Educators Must Be Learning Facilitators, Not Sages on the Stage
  • Role #4: Educators Must Be Expert Generalists, Not Specialists
  • Role #5: Educators Must Embrace Discovery Learning
  • Role #6: Educators Must Enhance Instruction With Real-World Meaning
  • Role #7: Educators Must Broaden the Perspective of the Curriculum
  • Role #8: Educators Must Be Evaluators of the Level of Thought
  • Role #9: Educators Must Teach to the Whole Mind
  • Role #10: Educators Must Use Technology as a Learning Tool
  • Role #11: Educators Must Be Holistic Evaluators
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider

Epilogue

  • Where We Begin
  • The Committed Sardine
  • Questions to Consider

References and Resources

References and Resources

Index

Index

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Ian Jukes , Ryan L. Schaaf
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The Future Tense of Teaching in the Digital Age

The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but have we radically changed how we deliver education? Are educators shifting and adapting or stuck in the traditional That’s the Way We’ve Always Done It world?

In this book, educators will be challenged to take action and adapt to a split-screen classroom--thinking and acting to accommodate today’s learners versus allowing traditional practices by default. Written with a touch of humor and a choose-your-own-adventure approach, the authors built chapters to be skimmed, scoured or searched for interesting, relevant or required material. Readers will be able to jump in where it serves them best.

  • Consider predictions about what learning will look like in the future.
  • Understand and learn to leverage nine core learning attributes of digital generations.
  • Discover ten critical roles educators can embrace to remain relevant in the digital age. 

Keep things simple, concentrate on how learners learn, and change your approach from present to future tense.

 


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword By Steve Wozniak
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Why This Book Is Called A Brief History of the Future of Education
  • Why Educators Must Adapt
  • How 20th Century Mindsets Impede Learning
  • Creating a Movement
  • How to Approach This Book
  • 1. BEYOND “THAT’S THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT”
  • A Preamble About Five Monkeys
  • Why We Do the Things We Do
  • TTWWADI and School Mindsets
  • Ways to Demonstrate TTWWADI
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 2. WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR OUR STUDENTS
  • An Old Mindset for the Modern World
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 3. LIFE IN THE AGE OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
  • How Disruptive Innovation Forces Change
  • Skill Sets in the New Global Economy
  • What All This Change Means for Education
  • Careers in the New Global Economy
  • The Purpose of Education in Modern Times
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 4. THE NINE CORE LEARNING ATTRIBUTES OF DIGITAL GENERATIONS
  • #1 Digital Learners Prefer Receiving Information From Multiple, Hyperlinked Digital Sources
  • #2 Digital Learners Prefer Parallel Processing and Multitasking
  • #3 Digital Learners Prefer Processing Pictures, Sounds, Color, and Video Before They Process Text
  • #4 Digital Learners Prefer to Network and Collaborate Simultaneously With Many Others
  • #5 Digital Learners Unconsciously Read Text on a Page or Screen in a Fast Pattern
  • #6 Digital Learners Prefer Just-in-Time Learning
  • #7 Digital Learners Are Looking for Instant Gratification and Immediate Rewards, as Well as Simultaneously Deferred Gratification and Delayed Rewards
  • #8 Digital Learners Are Transfluent Between Digital and Real Worlds
  • #9 Digital Learners Prefer Learning That Is Simultaneously Relevant, Active, Instantly Useful, and Fun
  • Instruction for the Digital Generations
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 5. HOW TO LOOK BACK TO MOVE FORWARD
  • Examine the Past to Look to the Future
  • Consider the Default Future Versus Taking Action
  • The Biggest Challenges for the Future of Education
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 6 LEARNING IN THE YEAR 2038
  • A Day in the Life of Alice
  • Eleven Predictions of Learning in the Year 2038
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 7 NEW SKILLS FOR MODERN TIMES
  • How We Have It All
  • The Eight Essential Skills of Modern Learning
  • The Path Forward
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • 8 NEW ROLES FOR EDUCATORS
  • Role #1: Educators Must Be Future-Focused
  • Role #2: Educators Must Be Lifelong Learners
  • Role #3: Educators Must Be Learning Facilitators, Not Sages on the Stage
  • Role #4: Educators Must Be Expert Generalists, Not Specialists
  • Role #5: Educators Must Embrace Discovery Learning
  • Role #6: Educators Must Enhance Instruction With Real-World Meaning
  • Role #7: Educators Must Broaden the Perspective of the Curriculum
  • Role #8: Educators Must Be Evaluators of the Level of Thought
  • Role #9: Educators Must Teach to the Whole Mind
  • Role #10: Educators Must Use Technology as a Learning Tool
  • Role #11: Educators Must Be Holistic Evaluators
  • Chapter Summary
  • Questions to Consider
  • Epilogue
  • Where We Begin
  • The Committed Sardine
  • Questions to Consider
  • References and Resources
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

I have adopted this book and the students and I really like it. I have just requested the new book by the same authors coming out in Feb. Great work! As a Instructional Technologist and Professor for many years, I truly enjoy the authors' point of view written throughout the text. Wonderful work.
Dr Sandy Pesavento, Education Dept, Marywood University
This is a beautiful book, well-organised, with full colour illustrations/photographs. It is well-suited to teachers/practitioners to help them consider and experiment with ideas for future-proofing their teaching.
Dr Louise Campbell, School of Education & Social Work, Dundee University
This book is exactly what we need so we can prepare the next generation of learners. There is nothing “wrong” with our education system; it’s exactly what we needed to prepare students for success in the 20th century. Ian and Ryan make the case for what’s changed, where the gaps are, what’s being done to address the gaps, and what we all need to do now so that today’s kids, our students, are well equipped to thrive in the world they’ll inherit.
Mitch Weisburgh, Founder, Academic Business Advisors & Games4Ed
A Brief History of the Future of Education is a must-read for anyone concerned with the ways in which all generations engage with the world and each other. The authors are former teachers who have studied and traversed the educational technology journey of the last 15 to 20 years. They understand what is happening in the workforce and how it will affect the definition of school as we know it. The historical perspective provides insight into the decisions that were made in education in the past. A deeper understanding of how schooling has evolved over time serves as a catalyst for thinking more deeply about how we might redesign education. This book provides a vision for education in the future.
Dr. Wendy Drexler, Faculty Lead, Ditital Age Learning & Educational Technology Program, Johns Hopkins University

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