Homo Zappiens: Growing up in a Digital Age

by Wim Veen, Ben Vrakking

Overview

This innovative book provides suggestions on how to adapt teaching practices to engage and inspire a new generation of technologically-literate learners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855392205
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/18/2006
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Wim Veen is head of Education &Technology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he is researching new concepts for learning and the changing pedagogy that comes with the uses of ICT in education. He is a consultant for educational institutions as well as for private companies and government authorities.

Ben Vrakking is a postgraduate research student in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in (strategic) change processes and, more recently, learning, which is one of the most basic and fundamental mechanisms for coping with change.

Table of Contents

Author's acknowledgements \ Preface \ Chapter 1: A time of change \ Chapter 2: Meeting Homo zappiens \ Chapter 3: Making sense of chaos \ Chapter 4: Learning playfully \ Chapter 5: Stopping the roller coaster \ Chapter 6: What schools could do \ Glossary \ Bibliography \ Acknowledgements \ Index