Description: How Education Works is a book about how we learn, the nature of technology, and our deeply intertwingled relationship with technologies
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How Education Works is a book about technology as much as it is a book about education. It is also a book about the nature of knowledge, of learning, of cognition, and, ultimately, of what it means to be human. The publishers mostly see it as a book for professional teachers and are marketing it as such but, though teachers might be the main ones buying, downloading, or borrowing it (it's a bit self-fulfilling) and it is situated in an educational context, the intended audience is far broader.
From the publisher's site, this is what it is about:
In this engaging volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens that focuses on the parts we play in technologies, from language and pedagogies to computers and regulations. He proposes a new theory of education whereby individuals are not just users but co-participants in technologies— technologies that are intrinsic parts of our cognition, of which we form intrinsic parts, through which we are entangled with one another and the world around us. Dron reframes popular
Links to howeducationworks.ca (5)
jondron.caJon Dron's home page – Aggregated musings, news and stories, mostly about learning and technology
jondron.orgJon Dron's home page – Aggregated musings, news and stories, mostly about learning and technology
icset.org8th ESET 2024|International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology
dron.familyJon Dron's home page – Aggregated musings, news and stories, mostly about learning and technology
howeducationworks.netHow Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique – A book about the nature of technology, learning, and being human
Jon Dron's home page – Aggregated musings, news and stories, mostly about learning and technology