
Digital Schools: How Technology Can Transform Education (Paperback)
Darrell M. West (author)- We can order this from the publisher
Digital Schools surveys this promising new landscape, examining in particular personalized learning; realtime student assessment; ways to enhance teacher evaluation; the untapped potential of distance learning; and the ways in which technology can improve the effectiveness of special education and foreign language instruction. West illustrates the potential contributions of blogs, wikis, social media, and video games and augmented reality in K-12 and higher education. Technology by itself will not remake education. But if today's schools combine increased digitization with needed improvements in organization, operations, and culture, we can overcome current barriers, produce better results, and improve the manner in which schools function. And we can get back to teaching for tomorrow, rather than for yesterday.
Publisher: Brookings Institution
ISBN: 9780815725442
Number of pages: 159
Weight: 259 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 10 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"As is expected from Brookings, Darrell West provides us with a clear, authoritative, non-dogmatic, up-to-date account of all the ways in which new technologies are altering the K-12 education landscape." Paul E. Peterson,, Director, Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance
|"Darrell West's book recognizes that if students don't learn the way we teach,then we should teach the way they learn." Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal, High Tech High
|"In this pithy volume, Darrell West offers wise words of both optimism and caution. He notes the promise of new technologies to improve schooling in the twenty-first century, but cautions that these advances will only deliver if accompanied by a tough-minded willingness to rethink the structure and culture of schools and school systems. Policymakers and educators alike would do well to heed the lessons West offers." Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies,American Enterprise Institute
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