Learning in a Digitalized Age: Plugged In, Turned On, Totally Engaged?

Fascinating new book on the role of technology in education.

All professional learning communities agree that there is added value in utilizing technologies to enhance and facilitate student success. This volume seeks a critical and informed answer to one of the most important educational questions of the day: how successful will learners be in the digital age?

Here, writers with real hands-on experience in the field challenge many of the assumptions about teaching and learning in the digital age. It is relevant and important for all those interested and concerned about the kinds of debates, arguments and ideas which are influencing and changing the nature of teaching and learning in the early decades of the 21st century.

These contributors, from around the world and across all sections and levels of the educational sector, share their experiences of working with educational technologies, mobile and digital learning in their day-to-day lives in schools, colleges and universities.

The main themes, arguments and reflections found highlight the dramatic effects and changes technology is having on the human experience generally and in teaching and learning in particular.

The editor: Lawrence Burke is an experienced international educator of 25 years. In the 2011/12 academic year the Higher Colleges of Technology, Al Ain Men’s College awarded him Teacher of the Year.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Digitalized-Age-Plugged-Totally/dp/1909717088

This debate is everywhere but it's important to promote the core skills in students for modern education - that is the power to think critically, to use technology as a tool and to value the arts as well as the sciences.