Download or read book The Flickering Mind written by Todd Oppenheimer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever—the miracle of computers and the Internet—at a cost of approximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s. Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transforming nearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts to close the gap between rich and poor, to our hopes for school reform, to our basic methods of developing the human imagination. Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strike with the business community, changing public beliefs about the demands of tomorrow’s working world, and reframing the nation’s systems for researching, testing, and evaluating achievement. All this change has led to a culture of the flickering mind, and a generation teetering between two possible futures. In one, youngsters have a chance to become confident masters of the tools of their day, to better address the problems of tomorrow. Alternatively, they can become victims of commercial novelties and narrow measures of ability, underscored by misplaced faith in standardized testing. At this point, America’s students can’t even make a fair choice. They are an increasingly distracted lot. Their ability to reason, to listen, to feel empathy, is quite literally flickering. Computers and their attendant technologies did not cause all these problems, but they are quietly accelerating them. In this authoritative and impassioned account of the state of education in America, Todd Oppenheimer shows why it does not have to be this way. Oppenheimer visited dozens of schools nationwide—public and private, urban and rural—to present the compelling tales that frame this book. He consulted with experts, read volumes of studies, and came to strong and persuasive conclusions: that the essentials of learning have been gradually forgotten and that they matter much more than the novelties of technology. He argues that every time we computerize a science class or shut down a music program to pay for new hardware, we lose sight of what our priority should be: “enlightened basics.” Broad in scope and investigative in treatment, The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be—it will define the debate.

Download or read book Teaching with Motion Pictures written by Edgar Dale and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motion Pictures in Education written by American Council on Education. Committee on Motion Pictures in Education and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motion Pictures in Education written by Don Carlos Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motion Pictures in Education in the United States written by Cline Morgan Koon and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies written by American Council on Education and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Council on Education Studies written by American Council on Education and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies written by American Council on Education and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Good References on Visual Aids in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Motion Picture in Education written by American Council on Education. Committee on Motion Pictures in Education and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motion Pictures in a Modern Curriculum written by Reginald C. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motion Pictures for Instruction written by Andrew Phillip Hollis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Motion Pictures in Education a Practical Handbook for Users of Visual AIDS Classic Reprint written by Don Carlos Ellis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Motion Pictures in Education a Practical Handbook for Users of Visual Aids Toward this more effective and more general use of motion pictures in education this book should prove a valuable aid. Its publication at this time is Opportune in a high degree. The wide experience of the authors and their knowledge of the principles of education and of school room practice have enabled them to make a book sound in principle, practical in application, and readable. For these qualities I commend it to all who are interested in this subject. It is fortunate that the pioneer book in this field is of so high a standard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Motion Pictures in the Classroom written by Ben DeKalbe Wood and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Films for Classroom Use written by Advisory Committee on the Use of Motion Pictures in Education and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moving Images written by Jon Billsberry and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will inspire academics, teachers and trainers to use film and television in their classrooms and to shows them how it might be done. It brings together respected international scholars who recount their experiences of how they have used moving images in their classrooms (defined widely to include distance-learning) with their explanations of why they chose this method of teaching and how they put their intentions into action. The book also illustrates how particular subjects might be taught using film and television as an inspiration to demonstrate the range of opportunities that these media offer. Finally, this book considers some of the practical issues in using film and television in the classroom such as copyright, technology, and the representation of reality and drama in films. This is a ‘practical, how to’ book that answers the questions of those people who have considered using film and television in their classroom but until now have shied away from doing so. The opportunity to see how others have used film effectively breaks down psychological barriers and makes it seem both realistic and worthwhile.