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Reboot student learning the right way!
Today's most successful school leaders are truly "learning engineers": creative thinkers who redefine their problems and design new ways to better serve kids' success. Technology has a critical role, but it's the creative reinvention of schools, systems, and classrooms that has to come first.
In this powerful book, best-selling author and education policy expert Rick Hess and chief learning officer Bror Saxberg show you how to become your school's learning engineer. Using cutting-edge research about learning science as a framework, you'll:
- Identify specific learning problems that need solving
- Devise smarter ways to address them
- Implement technology-enabled, not technology-driven, solutions
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction
Thinking Like a Learning Engineer
Why This Volume?
The Book: The World¿s Most Successful Education Technology
Books Are a Learning Technology
A Dispiriting Track Record
A Lot of Potential
Myths That Suffuse and Confuse Rethinking
Carpe Diem: Reengineering What It Means to Be a "School"
Don¿t Get Stuck on Bogeymen
Learning Science and Learning Engineers
The Book Ahead
2. What We Can Learn From Learning Science
Cognitive Science and Its Less Useful Cousins
Becoming an Expert
How Memory Works
Deliberate Practice
Working Memory Has Two Channels: Audio and Visual
The Crucial Role of Student Motivation
Putting Learning Science to Work
Seven Elements of Learning
A Few Key Takeaways
3. Applying Learning Science to Technology
The Five Capabilities of Technology
The Tutoring Challenge
Know What Problem Yoüre Solving
Technology Can Help With the Elements of Learning
Putting People and Technology Together
Putting This to Work
4. Reengineering With Technology
The Socratic Method
New Tools Can Create New Capabilities
Engineers Ask a Lot of Questions
What Happens When You Don¿t Think Like a Learning Engineer
Mooresville Graded School District: Fish Don¿t Talk About Water
Technology Can Be a Powerful Tool
5. Redesigning Schools and Systems
Designing for New Challenges and Opportunities
Khan Academy: Distinguishing the App Store From the Apps
Leveraging the Elements of Learning Design
Rocketship Education: The Engineer¿s Tale
It¿s the Engineering, Not the Gizmos
6. Doing This in the Real World
Technology in the Real World
When Rules Get in the Way
Going One-to-One
Summit Public Schools: Finding a Way
Overcoming the Obstacles
7. Bringing It Together
Three Big Things to Keep in Mind
Every Team Needs Learning Engineers
Learning Engineers Ride in the Engine, Not the Caboose
Revisiting Our Myths
The Bad News... Is the Good News
Index
About the author
An educator, political scientist and author, Frederick M. Hess studies K-12 and higher education issues. His books include The Same Thing Over and Over, Education Unbound, Common Sense School Reform, Revolution at the Margins, Spinning Wheels, and Cage-Busting Leadership (Harvard Education Press, February 2013). He is also the author of the popular Education Week blog, "Rick Hess Straight Up." Hess's work has appeared in scholarly and popular outlets such as Teachers College Record, Harvard Education Review, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, American Politics Quarterly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Leadership, U.S. News & World Report, National Affairs, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic and National Review. He has edited widely cited volumes on education philanthropy, school costs and productivity, the impact of education research, and No Child Left Behind. Hess serves as executive editor of Education Next, as lead faculty member for the Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program, and on the review boards for the Broad Prize in Urban Education and the Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools. He also serves on the boards of directors of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 4.0 SCHOOLS, and the American Board for the Certification of Teaching Excellence. A former high school social studies teacher, he has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University and Harvard University. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government, as well as an M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum, from Harvard University.
Summary
For teachers, policy makers and education leaders who want to use technology to support in school learning in a dynamic and creative way.
