ABSTRACT
Thirty years of spirited school reforms have failed to improve our schools and instead have left our public school systems in disarray. Meanwhile, employment prospects for high school and college graduates are fading, and the public is losing faith in its schools. The education paradigm inherited from the Industrial Era is in crisis. In the last decade, however, the Internet and new Web 2.0 technologies have placed the entirety of human knowledge in the hands of everyone. What will our educational institutions make of this unprecedented flood of Web-based learning resources? How can schools be transformed to accommodate the new possibilities for personal and social learning? Leonard Waks gathers all the pieces of our current educational puzzle together in this groundbreaking book. Drawing on new organizational models grounded in complexity theory, Waks maps out an inspiring new paradigm for education in the Internet age, and connects all the dots in constructing detailed models for new schools-now transformed into "open learning centers." Finally, Waks details action steps readers can take to speed this transformative process along in their own locations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |65 pages
Schooling—The Industrial Paradigm
part |61 pages
Learning Networks
chapter |10 pages
The Internet and the World Wide Web
chapter |16 pages
Web 2.0 and the Net Culture
chapter |18 pages
The Learningweb
chapter |16 pages
The Web in the School
part |66 pages
Education 2.0: A Network Paradigm for Education
chapter |17 pages
New Educational Visions
chapter |12 pages
Complex Organizations
chapter |23 pages
Open Learning Centers
chapter |13 pages
The Clash of Paradigms
part |29 pages
Educational Revolution