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  Title

  The anti-education era : creating smarter students through digital learning

  Author

  Gee, James Paul.  

  Publisher:

  Palgrave Macmillan,

  Pub date:

  2013

  Pages:

  240 p. :

  ISBN:

  0230342094

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    LB1028.3 .G44 2013	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0230342094

  ISBN:

  9780230342095

  Personal Author:

  Gee, James Paul.

  Title:

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

  Publication info:

  New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

  Physical description:

  240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

  Contents:

  Preface -- Orwell's question: why are humans so stupid? PART I: 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. PART II: 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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  AURORA

  Subject term:

  Educational technology--Knowledge and learning.

  Subject term:

  Digital media--Social aspects.

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