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Learning futures : education, technology, and social change / Keri Facer.

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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, wheth...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Facer, Keri, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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.
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
Table of 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.

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