Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools

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An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning

As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks-and teachers locked away in classrooms. In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience in media-from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation-to support a vision for a new world of learning.

This book, in six chapters, explores the "edges" in education—the places where K-12 learning has already seen revolutionary changes through innovative reform and the use of technology.

Examines ways in which learning can be revolutionized through innovative reform and the use of technology
Explores the ever-expanding world of technology for breakthroughs in teaching and learning
Includes many wonderful resources to support innovation in schools across the nation

This important book offers a clear vision for tomorrow's classrooms that will enhance learning opportunities for all children.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118157404
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Edition number: 1
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 204,792
Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.88 (d)

Meet the Author

Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director emeritus of The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). He was founding director of the KQED Center for Education (PBS) in San Francisco, managing the channel's television programming, Web content, and outreach services for schools and families. Chen was also a director of research at Sesame Workshop, in New York, working on Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact, and an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

FOREWORD BY GEORGE LUCAS xi

PREFACE: MY LEARNING JOURNEY: FROM THE LONGEST STREET IN THEWORLD TO A GALAXY LONG AGO AND FAR, FAR AWAY xv

Introduction: The Vision of an Education Nation 1

1 The Thinking Edge: Getting Smarter About Learning 11

2 The Curriculum Edge: Real Learning and Authentic Assessment 35

3 The Technology Edge: PuttingModern Tools in Young Hands 87

4 The Time/Place Edge: Learning Any Time, Anywhere 139

5 The Co-Teaching Edge: Teachers, Experts, and Parents as Coeducators 189

6 The Youth Edge: Digital Learners Carrying Change in Their Pockets 213

AFTERWORD: TOMORROW'S EDGE, A 2020 VISION 241

NOTES 254

SELECTED WEB SITES 268

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 275

INDEX 277

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teachmeteacher

Posted April 19, 2011

Highly recommended for educators

In his book, Education Nation, Chen argues that the focus of education has changed. Today's students need to be able to do more than just regurgitate information. They must know how to find information, assess its quality, and then use it to accomplish a goal. He also believes that social-emotional learning has become more important because in today's world students must be able to cooperate and collaborate, often with people very different from themselves. Unfortunately, he argues, our schools have not yet adapted to his paradigm shift.

Chen argues that there are six leading "edges" that are challenging today's education system. The edges include: The Thinking Edge, The Curriculum Edge, The Technology Edge, The Time/Place Edge, The Co-Teaching Edge, and the Youth Edge. Two of the six edges, "The Thinking Edge" and the "Time/Place Edge" call for America to modernize its thinking about education and explore the possibilities of teaching in the 21st century. The chapters on "The Curriculum Edge" and "The Technology Edge" focus on rethinking what students are taught, how student learning is assessed, and the kinds of tools teachers use. Finally,"The Co-Teaching Edge" and "The Youth Edge" revision the traditional classroom.

In terms of its implications for educators, I see this book as a call to action. Chen has a great line in the introduction where he says, "In the Olympics of school systems, we are world champions of educational inertia" (4). In some ways, I find his work to be similar to Linda Darling-Hammond's The Flat World and Education. The problems with America's schools are well documented, but it seems we have taken a piecemeal approach to reform. His examples are similar to Darling-Hammond's where he identifies isolated examples of what change should look like. Clearly, it does not appear that changes are going to be coming from the top down, but this book can help educators develop specific proposals for innovation and change, allowing the transformation to begin to occur from the ground up instead.
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