Over the years the Piaget list has proven quite helpful to me. Thus, it is with considerable pleasure that I share my continuing writing activities with you. Please brows the chapter titles given below, and see if any seem to “grab” you. Education for Students' Futures Education for Students’ Futures is a new free 116-page book edited by David Moursund and Robert Sylwester, and published by Information Age Education. The intended audience is preservice and inservice K-12 teachers, teachers of teachers, parents of school-age children, and others interested in our educational system. The book has multiple authors, although Moursund and Sylwester together have written well over half of the chapters. PDF File: http://i-a-e.org/downloads/free-ebooks-by-dave-moursund/269-education-for-students-futures-1.html Word File: http://i-a-e.org/downloads/free-ebooks-by-dave-moursund/268-education-for-students-futures.html The book's 22 chapters are arranged into four sections that describe major societal changes from the Industrial Revolution to the expected Technological Singularity (some time in the future in when computers will be smarter than humans). Part 1: The Concept of External Cognition Introduction The First Machine Age The Second Machine Age The Coming Technological Singularity Education for the Coming Technological Singularity Part 2: Cognition Begins with Attention Self-Assessment Can Help Students to Become More Responsible for Their Own Education Mastery Learning and Authentic Assessment Attention in an Increasingly Distractive World Developing Abilities to Cope with and Reduce Distraction The Problem Is Not the Cell Phone The Administrative Role in Interactive Instruction Part 3: Human Brain and Computer Brain Conscious and Unconscious Response—a Cognitive Neuroscientist's Perspective The Future of the Mind —A Theoretical physicist's Perspective Introduction to the Future of Teaching Machines The Teaching Machine Is Both Tool and Teacher Innovating Minds—What Students Need for the Future Part 4: Explorations that Look Toward Future Possibilities Folk Computing and Folk Mathing The Role of Video Games in the Education of Young People Sugata Mitra's Thoughts on the Future of Learning Writing as an Important Challenge in Adult Education Diane Ackerman on The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us The Future through Quotations |