Natural learning for a connected world : education, technology, and the human brain
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Natural learning for a connected world : education, technology, and the human brain
Teachers College, c2011
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Who and what are educating our children?
- How is technology impacting the world of traditional education?
- What are the powerful beliefs about learning and teaching that keep education frozen in place?
- What do students need in order to successfully prepare for the future?
- The perception/action dynamic: the foundation for learning from life
- The science behind the perception/action cycle
- Perception/action learning
- Goals and outcomes: building rich neural networks requires real world knowledge
- Side by side: traditional and perception/action learning, a model
- Motivation, the engine that drives perception/action learning
- The optimal state of mind for learning
- How the "system" engages the low road
- Working with biological predispositions
- How a village, school, and society teach
- Implementing the guided experience approach: the three critical elements
- Relaxed alertness
- Orchestrated immersion
- Active processing
- Window into tomorrow