Book Description: The digital revolution has hit education, with
more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired world. But
are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they
tapping into the learning potential of today's
Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Have schools fallen
through the crack of the digital divide? In Rethinking Education
in the Age of Technology, Allan Collins and Richard Halverson
argue that the knowledge revolution has transformed our jobs,
our homes, our lives, and therefore must also transform our
schools. Much like after the school-reform movement of the
industrial revolution, our society is again poised at the edge
of radical change. To keep pace with a globalized technological
culture, we must rethink how we educate the next generation or
America will be left behind. This groundbreaking book offers a
vision for the future of American education that goes well
beyond the walls of the classroom to include online social
networks, distance learning with anytime, anywhere