Tag: Education
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Book Review: The Next Education Workforce – How Team-based Staffing Models Can Support Equity and Improve Learning Outcomes
I received this book as a gift from Carole Basile, who serves as dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) at Arizona State University, by the end of an early February meeting that we had with her. The book outlines a key part of MLFTC’s vision for the future of the education workforce…
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Book Review: Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology – The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America
The book is written by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson. I went through this book after my wife had to read it as one of the main references within one course of Arizona State University’s Masters in Learning Sciences, which she is currently studying. The overall vision of education in this book is structured around…
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Book Review: Failure to Disrupt – Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
The book is written by Justin Reich, who serves as Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Director of the Teaching Lab Systems at MIT. Overall, the book aims to present an argument against the overestimation of the power of technology to profoundly alter the ways educational institutions operate and how students learn. The author aims…