Education 2.0 The LearningWeb Revolution and the Transformation of the School [Hardcover]

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.IntroductionRecommended.
CHOICE

Leonard J. Waks has a genuine and unremitting commitment to young people. This is consistently demonstrated throughout his reimagining of schooling in the Internet Age in Education 2.0: The Learningweb Revolution and the Transformation of the School. The book takes seriously contemporary problems of schools at the discursive and policy levels while maintaining a well-supported faith in the power of young people and the Internet.
Journal of Philosophy of Education

Waks has crafted a book that is well informed about theoretical issues in education while also detailed and erudite with regard to new technologies. In that sense, the book is one of a kind and will likely be influential. Educational theorists of all stripes will find new and useflÃL