From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning

An expert perspective on 21st century education

What can you learn on a cell phone? Almost anything! How does that concept fit with our traditional system of education? It doesn't. Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky's book of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers and living. His "bottom-up" vision includes students' ideas about what they need from teachers, schools, and education. Also featured are easy-to-do, high-impact classroom strategies that help students acquire "digital wisdom." This thought-provoking text is organized into two sections that address:

Rethinking education (including what and how we teach and measuring learning) 21st century learning and technology in the classroom (including games, YouTube, and more)

• Author
• Marc Prensky, Milton Chen

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 227

• Publisher
• Corwin Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781452230092

• Release date
• 2012