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Lessons for Tomorrow Edward L. Davis Secure Transaction Soft Cover | 312 pages | ISBN: 0-9769661-0-7 |
Teaching children how to learn ought to be the chief objective of public education, yet it is not. Instead we fill young minds with largely useless information that they must then memorize for tests. Our public education system is systematically turning kids off to formal learning, particularly in our misguided efforts to measure it. The product of this system is performance and extrinsic motivation, not intelligence and a passion to comprehend the world and make it better.
The most common experience of school is boredom. The most reinforced behavior is complacency. Students continuously sacrifice their legitimate curiosities to retrieve and memorize "correct" answers to predetermined questions.
To bring America's schools back, we need to be able to accurately identify the issues: philosophical; political; social; and technological. Then we need a blueprint driven by a vision for education in the 21st century.
Lessons for Tomorrow was written to address these needs. It is a handbook for teachers and parents to take a comprehensive look at the design of education and address the questions, "What is wrong?" and
"What does the solutions look like?"Edward Davis is a pioneer in the e-learning industry and one of the first to design and promote cognitive-based approaches in the corporate training industry. He founded and operated MetaCommunication, a training company. Additionally, he launched the Electronic University Network, the first successful enterprise to offer college credits and degrees online, and initiated in a United States high school district. Edward has been a charter school teacher, a corporate trainer, an instructional designer, and an education writer.
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