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Humanizing the Education Machine : How to Create Schools That Turn Disengaged Kids Into Inspired Learners.

A clear roadmap for the new territory of education Education in the U.S. has been under fire for quite some time, and for good reason. The numbers alone tell a very disconcerting story: according to various polls, 70% of teachers are disengaged. Add to that the fact that the United States ranks last...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Rex
Otros Autores: Latham, Bill, Cahill, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : Wiley, 2016.
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  • Humanizing the Education Machine: How to Create Schools that Turn Disengaged Kids into Inspired Learners; Contents; Foreword Kevin E. Baird; Foreword Ricky Kassanoff and Mark Hubbard; Foreword Dan Boggio; Foreword Gregory Moore; Foreword Chris Petrick; Preface; Chapter 1: Numbers Don't Lie; To Humanize the Education Machine; This Book: A Road Map; Who Should Read This Book?; How One Family Escaped the Great Machine; It Takes a Village; The Collaborative Hum; Chapter 2: Two Guys from Gainesville; Chapter 3: MindShift: We Didn't Seek Permission; The K-12 MindShift Project.
  • The Pancake Roundtable IncubatorYou Can Do This, Too; Chapter 4: The Learning Manifesto; A Stake in the Ground; Getting Beyond Whack-a-Mole; K-12: What's the Problem?
  • Preamble: A Case for Change; Self-Evident Truths; The Learning Manifesto; Exposing Hidden Things; Future-Ready Schools; Well-Schooled but Poorly Educated; Left Behind; The Tale of Two Communities; Chapter 5: How the Road to Transformation Began in Failure; The Path to Quality; When Achievement Drives Culture; The Lesson of Volkswagen and Teaching to the Test; When Quality Drives Culture.
  • "". . . When Business Leaves but the People Stay""Responding to Change; Becoming Future Ready; Reform versus Culture; The Choluteca Bridge of the Information Age; Chapter 6: Gutenberg to Google; The Challenge to Google Immigrants; I Don't Even Speak the Language!; Digital Immigrants and Natives; The Gutenberg Revolution; The Google Revolution; Disrupting a Linear World with Logarithmic Change; Chapter 7: The Learning Matrix: Mapping the Five Eras of Learning; Toppling Old Empires; The Pattern of Technological Change; Why Would I Send My Kid to Your School?; The System's Logic Drives Behavior.
  • The Tipping Point for EducationThe Oral World; The Printed Word and Individual Learning; The Broadcast Word Brings Edutainment; Digital Connected Learning and the Power of Engagement; Social-Mobile and Personalized Learning; Chapter 8: The Pandorification of Learning: The Future Is Here; How Do We Envision the Future?; The Pandorification of Learning; 2025: Sarah and the Pandorification of Learning; 2025: The Free-Range Learning Community; Threading It Together; Will We Improve the Past or Make the Future?; What Improving the Past Looks Like in Education.
  • What Making the Future Looks Like in EducationCreating a Future for Everyone; Chapter 9: Changing the Odds: Getting Beyond Zip Code Destiny; Beating the Low Expectations Syndrome; A Day in the Life; The Toll on Good Teachers; Survival Mode; Is Education Rigged?; The Parent Factor; Healthy Communities = Healthy Schools; The Learning and Life Connection; Humanizing the System; Chapter 10: Humanizing the Great Education Machine; Newark-The Prize; What Institutions Can and Cannot Do; Iatrogenic Medicine; Ferguson and Jennings: Four Miles and a World Apart; A Surge Opportunity for Ferguson.