Description
Homo Zappiens examines how children growing up in a world of technology and change show more reluctance to fit within the education system than any generation before them. Furthermore, they frequently have a better grasp of technology than those who educate them. Instead of attempting to control, understand or master technology, they simply use it!
As technology enables us to capture information, society is changing its learning demands away from information and focusing instead on communication, interpretation and negotiation. As long as we keep judging the Homo Zappiens’ generation by our old standards, we may never see how their ways of playing and communication are actually emerging strategies for our digital, creative future. Accepting education as the facilitation of learning, we must reconsider our teaching as we witness a different type of learning.
Table of Contents
Author's acknowledgements \ Preface \ Chapter 1: A time of change \ Chapter 2: Meeting Homo zappiens \ Chapter 3: Making sense of chaos \ Chapter 4: Learning playfully \ Chapter 5: Stopping the roller coaster \ Chapter 6: What schools could do \ Glossary \ Bibliography \ Acknowledgements \ Index
Author(s)
Wim Veen,
Wim Veen is head of Education & Technology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he is researching new concepts for learning and the changing pedagogy that comes with the uses of ICT in education. He is a consultant for educational institutions as well as for private companies and government authorities.
Ben Vrakking,
Ben Vrakking is a postgraduate research student in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in (strategic) change processes and, more recently, learning, which is one of the most basic and fundamental mechanisms for coping with change.
Reviews
This is a very lively read with plenty of bits you'll be quoting to your friends and collegues.
Learning and Teaching Update, October 2007,
…illustrates well the challenges that the digital lifestyle of many young minds creates for teachers, schools and education in general.
Chris Yapp,
…a brilliant, insightful read…a guide for anyone who wants to understand what drives children to concentrate, learn and develop.
Roy Leighton,