How Education Works

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-par...

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Main Author: Dron, John
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Published: Athabasca University Press 2023
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description 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 families of educational theory (objectivist, subjectivist, and complexivist) and explains a variety of educational phenomena, including the failure of learning style theories, the nature of literacies, systemic weaknesses in learning management systems, the prevalence of cheating in educational institutions, and the fundamental differences between online and in-person learning. Ultimately, How Education Works articulates how practitioners in education can usefully understand technology, education, and their relationship to improve teaching practice.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1321462024-03-29T13:49:04Z How Education Works Dron, John Education theory, hard technology, soft technology, educational technology, pedagogy, tool, coparticipation, distributed cognition, extended mind, collective intelligence, complex adaptive system, complexity, complexivism, constructivism, behavourism, philosophy of technology, artificial intelligence, assessment, grades, distance learning, e-learning, online learning, in-person learning, learning environment bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNQ Open learning, home learning, distance education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNQ Open learning, distance education 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 families of educational theory (objectivist, subjectivist, and complexivist) and explains a variety of educational phenomena, including the failure of learning style theories, the nature of literacies, systemic weaknesses in learning management systems, the prevalence of cheating in educational institutions, and the fundamental differences between online and in-person learning. Ultimately, How Education Works articulates how practitioners in education can usefully understand technology, education, and their relationship to improve teaching practice. Published 2023-12-21T17:03:51Z 2023-12-21T17:03:51Z 2023-06-21 book 9781771993838; 9781771993845; 9781771993852 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132146 eng Issues in Distance Education image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.amazon.ca/How-Education-Works-Technology-Technique-ebook/dp/B0C923VD4M https://www.aupress.ca/books/120320-how-education-works/ Athabasca University Press AU Press 10.15215/aupress/9781771993838.01 10.15215/aupress/9781771993838.01 6b1b8af7-79e4-4b18-b297-b983df0f073f 9781771993838; 9781771993845; 9781771993852 AU Press 1919-4390 300 Canada open access
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