The anti-education era : creating smarter students through digital learning / James Paul Gee.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xv, 240 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230342095
  • 0230342094
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1028.5 .G416 2013
Contents:
Preface -- Orwell's question : why are humans so stupid? -- How to be stupid. Short-circuiting the circuit of human reflective action -- The limits of human memory -- Mental comfort stories -- Lack of context -- Lack of experience -- Pitfalls along our search for status and solidarity -- Words gone awry -- Lack of agency -- Institutions and frozen thought -- Fact-free stories that sound good -- Imagined kin -- Lonely groups of one -- When not to trust experts -- Evading knowledge -- Flight from complexity -- How to get smart before it's too late. Inclusive we : how we can all get smarter together -- Big minds, not little minds -- Mind visions and new, better worlds -- Synchronized intelligence: getting our minds and tools in synch -- Interlude to forestall possible misunderstandings -- Getting smarter before it's too late.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection LB 1028.5 .G416 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98645941

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.

Preface -- Orwell's question : why are humans so stupid? -- How to be stupid. Short-circuiting the circuit of human reflective action -- The limits of human memory -- Mental comfort stories -- Lack of context -- Lack of experience -- Pitfalls along our search for status and solidarity -- Words gone awry -- Lack of agency -- Institutions and frozen thought -- Fact-free stories that sound good -- Imagined kin -- Lonely groups of one -- When not to trust experts -- Evading knowledge -- Flight from complexity -- How to get smart before it's too late. Inclusive we : how we can all get smarter together -- Big minds, not little minds -- Mind visions and new, better worlds -- Synchronized intelligence: getting our minds and tools in synch -- Interlude to forestall possible misunderstandings -- Getting smarter before it's too late.

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