The New Education : How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

Introduction and overview: the future of learning institutions in a digital age -- Customized and participatory learning -- Our digital age: implications for learning and its (online) institutions -- FLIDA 101: a pedagogical allegory -- Institutions as mobilizing networks: (or, "I hate the institution, but I love what it did for me") -- HASTAC: a case study of a virtual learning institution as a mobilizing network -- (In)conclusive: thinking the future of digital thinking.;How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. What happens to traditional educational institutions when learning also takes place on a vast range of Internet sites, from Pokemon Web pages to Wikipedia? This report investigates how traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. The authors propose an alternative definition of "institution" as a "mobilizing network"--Emphasizing its flexibility, the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive productivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change--and explore the implications for higher education. The Future of Thinking reports on innovative, virtual institutions. It also uses the idea of a virtual institution both as part of its subject matter and as part of its process: the first draft of the book was hosted on a Web site for collaborative feedback and writing. The authors use this experiment in participatory writing as a test case for virtual institutions, learning institutions, and a new form of collaborative authorship. The finished version is still posted and open for comment. This book is the full-length report of the project, which was summarized in an earlier MacArthur volume, The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. Our Current System Of Higher Education Dates To The Period From 1865 To 1925, When The Nation's New Universities Created Grades And Departments, Majors And Minors, In An Attempt To Prepare Young People For A World Transformed By The Telegraph And The Model T. As Cathy N. Davidson Argues In The New Education, This Approach To Education Is Wholly Unsuited To The Era Of The Gig Economy. From The Ivy League To Community Colleges, She Introduces Us To Innovators Who Are Remaking College For Our Own Time By Emphasizing Student-centered Learning That Values Creativity In The Face Of Change Above All. The New Education Ultimately Shows How We Can Teach Students Not Only To Survive But To Thrive Amid The Challenges To Come. -- Amazon.com. Introduction -- Quarter-life Crisis -- College For Everyone -- Against Technophobia -- Against Technophilia -- Palpable Impact -- Why College Costs So Much -- The Measure Of A Student -- The Future Of Learning -- Ten Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your College Experience -- Ten Tips For Transforming Any Classroom For Active, Student-centered Learning. Cathy N. Davidson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 277-302) And Index. "The most important book I have read in many years." -Tony Wagner, Harvard University i-lab Expert in Residence, author of Creating Innovators A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past—and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy N. Davidson argues in The New Education , this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy. From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to innovators who are remaking college for our own time by emphasizing student-centered learning that values creativity in the face of change above all. The New Education ... A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past — and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy N. Davidson argues in The New Education , this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy. From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to innovators who are remaking college for our own time by emphasizing student-centered learning that values creativity in the face of change above all. The New Education ultimately shows how we can teach students not only to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come. A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past-and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy Davidson argues in The New Education, this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy. From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to innovators who are remaking college for our own time, by emphasizing student-centered learning that values creativity in the face of change above all. The New Education ultimately shows how we can teach students not only to survive but to thrive amid the challenges to come Introduction Quarter-Life Crisis College for Everyone Against Technophobia Against Technophilia Palpable Impact Why College Costs So Much The Measure of a Student The Future of Learning Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your College Experience Ten Tips for Transforming Any Classroom for Active, Student-Centered Learning Acknowledgments Notes Index Published by Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.