Books.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
How We Will Learn in the 21st Century is a book about change and technology. Judy Breck, author of The Wireless Age, spent some four years finding and organizing web pages spanning all disciplines. Dubbing the Internet a "golden swamp," she describes how the Internet has unified so many previous disparate threads of knowledge, including libraries, museums, laboratories, archives, and collections both academic and private. Breck sees the power that so much combined knowledge represents as coming with enormous responsibility, and she divides that responsibility into three areas. First, today's teacher must know how to find the necessary information. Second, he or she must know how to powerfully express it, via a web page. Last, there must be a concerted effort among educators to link academic sites together on the Internet to form a "World's Fair" of knowledge. Only by accomplishing these things can teachers and students fully realize the wealth of knowledge of the Internet.
Synopsis
How We Will Learn in the 21st Century is a book about change and technology. Judy Breck, author of The Wireless Age, spent some four years finding and organizing web pages spanning all disciplines. Dubbing the Internet a _golden swamp,_ she describes how the Internet has unified so many previous disparate threads of knowledge, including libraries, museums, laboratories, archives, and collections both academic and private. Breck sees the power that so much combined knowledge represents as coming with enormous responsibility. Only by accomplishing these things can teachers and students fully realize the wealth of knowledge of the Internet.
Booknews
After teaching high school for one year, Breck spent several years writing advertising copy and staffing Texas political campaigns, before becoming involved in several national educational projects. During the past six years, she's worked on the digitization of academic knowledge and its interfacing onto the Internet, resulting in "HomeworkCentral," an educational website for students and researchers. In this text, she offers an optimistic look at the ways in which the Internet has changed the world of learning, and the positive ways it may influence education in the future. For teachers and administrators. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)