How We Will Learn in the 21st Century

by Judy Breck

Overview

How We Will Learn in the 21st Century is a book about change and technology. Judy Breck, author of The Wireless Age, spent some four years finding and organizing web pages spanning all disciplines. Dubbing the Internet a 'golden swamp,' she describes how the Internet has unified so many previous disparate threads of knowledge, including libraries, museums, laboratories, archives, and collections both academic and private. Breck sees the power that so much combined knowledge represents as coming with enormous responsibility, and she divides that responsibility into three areas. First, today's teacher must know how to find the necessary information. Second, he or she must know how to powerfully express it, via a web page. Last, there must be a concerted effort among educators to link academic sites together on the Internet to form a 'World's Fair' of knowledge. Only by accomplishing these things can teachers and students fully realize the wealth of knowledge of the Internet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810843035
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	08/06/2002
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.66(w) x 9.08(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Judy Breck is the creator of edclicks.com, showcasing knowledge readily available within the Internet and increasingly serving as the common learning resource around the globe and is an advisor and contributor to the World Bank Development Gateway. In addition to her writing she is a Web site developer and designer.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 The Incredible Economy of Digital Knowledge Chapter 4 The Great Release of What is Known Chapter 5 Adjusting to the Machines Chapter 6 The Primordial Intellectual Internet Chapter 7 How the Artists Will Contribute Chapter 8 The New World's Fair of Useful Knowledge Chapter 9 How We Really Learn Part 10 Index Part 11 About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Judy Breck presents far-seeing and workable ideas for using the Internet in the real world of today's changing schools. She explains how computers and Web sites are empowering teachers in their basic role of leading students to knowledge. This book will be helpful to teachers and administrators who seek to understand the flow of that knowledge into the new Internet medium and how it is there taking interesting new forms and linking into context that stimulates discovery learning.

Nanette Creamer

The Internet was largely wasted as an educational tool until Judy Breck created a free resource that is deep, intelligently executed, and tuned to be intensely useful to all ages. She is a true online pioneer who saw the opportunity for the glowing box on students' desks to be 'the great equalizer' that has not been available in any prior education system.

Preston Bealle

Wireless technology and the Internet are breaking down the barriers surrounding the education of our children. The cost and limitations of conventional educational methods, materials and facilities make the Internet and mobile wireless devices the obvious solution. Judy Breck elegantly leaps these barriers in describing a 'how to' to enable a global educational network.

Gregory Chotkowski

Judy Breck takes educators through an Internet journey, inspiring the new generation of teachers tapping into online resources. Serving as a mentor, Judy has seen first hand how inner city students can utilize the Internet to achieve higher academic standards. Judy knows our New York City students, who say about her, 'Finally someone has taken the guesswork out of how to appropriately use the Internet in our schools.'

Debra Lesser

After teaching high school for one year, Breck spent several years writing advertising copy and staffing Texas political campaigns, before becoming involved in several national educational projects. During the past six years, she's worked on the digitization of academic knowledge and its interfacing onto the Internet, resulting in "HomeworkCentral," an educational website for students and researchers. In this text, she offers an optimistic look at the ways in which the Internet has changed the world of learning, and the positive ways it may influence education in the future. For teachers and administrators. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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