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Author Facer, Keri, 1972-

Title Learning futures : education, technology, and social change / Keri Facer
Edition 1st ed
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 181 pages)
Contents Introduction: Education, technology and the future -- Is there a future for schools? -- A new generational contract -- Being human -- Collective, embodied and dangerous knowledge -- Mind the gaps -- Networks, collectives and crowds -- A future-building school -- The future-building school of 2035 -- Making it real
Summary In the twenty-first century educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of education. Drawing on ten years of research into educational innovation and socio-technical change, working with educators, researchers, digital industries, students and policy-makers, this book questions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects.
Cyberspace -- Social aspects
Computer-assisted instruction.
Educational technology.
Information Technology
Computer-Assisted Instruction
Internet
Educational Technology
Education -- methods
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Educational technology
Computer-assisted instruction
Cyberspace -- Social aspects
Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
Information technology -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136728228
1136728228
9780203817308
0203817303
9786613103260
6613103268