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

"A compelling case for reframing methods of teaching and learning." --Kirkus Reviews"Jim Gee is one of the great thinkers of our time. His book, The Anti-Education Era, explains how we can all become smarter. His description of synchronized intelligence and why affinity spaces make for powerful learning should radically change how we think about education." --Allan Collins, author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology"Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant." --Marc Prensky, author of Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom"This book is a wonderful meditation on what it means to be an educated adult in a 21st-century, why this goal is critical to our future as a species, and what technologies can and cannot do to help us achieve the goal of an educated citizenry. It is a powerful antidote to the prevailing belief that more technology, and more STEM courses will save our economy and our planet." --Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap A compelling case for reframing methods of teaching and learning. "Kirkus Reviews" Jim Gee is one of the great thinkers of our time. His book, "The Anti-Education Era, "explains how we can all become smarter. His description of synchronized intelligence and why affinity spaces make for powerful learning should radically change how we think about education. "Allan Collins, author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology" Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant. "Marc Prensky, author of Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom" This book is a wonderful meditation on what it means to be an educated adult in a 21st-century, why this goal is critical to our future as a species, and what technologies can and cannot do to help us achieve the goal of an educated citizenry. It is a powerful antidote to the prevailing belief that more technology, and more STEM courses will save our economy and our planet. "Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap"" "A compelling case for reframing methods of teaching and learning."--"Kirkus Reviews""""Jim Gee is one of the great thinkers of our time. His book, "The Anti-Education Era, "explains how we can all become smarter. His description of synchronized intelligence and why affinity spaces make for powerful learning should radically change how we think about education."--Allan Collins, author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology"Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant."--Marc Prensky, author of "Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom" "This book is a wonderful meditation on what it means to be an educated adult in a 21st-century, why this goal is critical to our future as a species, and what technologies can and cannot do to help us achieve the goal of an educated citizenry. It is a powerful antidote to the prevailing belief that more technology, and more STEM courses will save our economy and our planet."--Tony Wagner, author of "Creating Innovators" and "The Global Achievement Gap" "Jim Gee is one of the great thinkers of our time. His book, "The Anti-Education Era, "explains how we can all become smarter. His description of synchronized intelligence and why affinity spaces make for powerful learning should radically change how we think about education."--Allan Collins, author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology"Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant."--Marc Prensky, author of "Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom" "This book is a wonderful meditation on what it means to be an educated adult in a 21st-century, why this goal is critical to our future as a species, and what technologies can and cannot do to help us achieve the goal of an educated citizenry. It is a powerful antidote to the prevailing belief that more technology, and more STEM courses will save our economy and our planet."--Tony Wagner, author of "Creating Innovators" and "The Global Achievement Gap" "Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant."--Marc Prensky, author of "Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom" Read more...