The Wireless Age: Its Meaning for Learning and Schools

by Judy Breck

Overview

Whether you're an Internet guru, novice web-surfer, or lost in the digital world, The Wireless Age will give you insight into the gold mine of educational resources on the web. Cutting through the usual technical jargon, Breck demonstrates how anyone can utilize the Internet for education. At the same time a theoretical explanation of the growth of cyberspace and a practical exploration of the tools available there, this book is a must-read for every educator or school leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780585378619
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	05/09/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Judy Breck is the Director of Academic Content for www.bigchalk.com. Since 1997, Breck has chosen and reviewed the weekly Top 8 knowledge websites posted on the site.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Knowing Elegantly
Chapter 2 A Good Idea
Chapter 3 Clumsy Communication
Chapter 4 Mirrors
Chapter 5 Media
Chapter 6 The Great Change
Chapter 7 Digital Soup
Chapter 8 Hyperwebs
Chapter 9 Hypermirrors
Chapter 10 Hyperwired
Chapter 11 New Reflections
Chapter 12 The Radiant Medium
Chapter 13 The Golden Horizon
Chapter 14 The Grand Idea

Editorial Reviews

What is the real value of the World Wide Web? Judy Breck illuminates the Internet's lasting gift: that no more children need be born into a world where the full scope of human ideas is available only to the elite. The privilege of knowledge has ended.

Lamar Alexander

Judy Breck is a natural teacher and a mentor with unshakable conviction that every child will rise to the occasion when challenged by knowledge. Her insights will enable parents and teachers—many of them for the first time—to understand the grand idea that will emerge from the wireless age.

Thomas W. Evans

In The Wireless Age: Its Meaning For Learning And Schools, Judy Breck (director of academics at bigchalk.com, an education portal serving the K-12 learning community) offers a jargon free presentation of insights into the wealth of educational resources the Internet offers the classroom and students of today. Breck blends a theoretical explanation of the growth of cyberspace with a practical exploration of the tools available for its maximum utilization in the learning process. The Wireless Age is an invaluable introduction for classroom teachers, school librarians, education policy makers, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in improving and enhancing the quality of public, parochial, and private schools.

The Wireless Age is an invaluable introduction for classroom teachers, school librarians, education policy makers, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in improving and enhancing the quality of public, parochial, and private schools.

Wisconsin Bookwatch

Knowledge workers and Internet access are the keys to economic success for communities everywhere. Judy Breck draws a compelling picture of the Internet as a powerful personal education tool providing a unique opportunity for people everywhere to gain "knowledge." Knowledge acquisition on demand could help reconfigure not only education, business and government services but also economies around the world.

Kathy Walsh

Knowledge workers and Internet access are the keys to economic success for communities everywhere. Judy Breck draws a compelling picture of the Internet as a powerful personal education tool providing a unique opportunity for people everywhere to gain "knowledge." Knowledge acquisition on demand could help reconfigure not only education, business and government services but also economies around the world.--Kathy Walsh, former education policy and strategy executive, IBM Institute for Electronic Government

What is the real value of the World Wide Web? Judy Breck illuminates the Internet's lasting gift: that no more children need be born into a world where the full scope of human ideas is available only to the elite. The privilege of knowledge has ended.--Lamar Alexander, former U.S. Secretary of Education; former governor of Tennessee

Judy Breck is a natural teacher and a mentor with unshakable conviction that every child will rise to the occasion when challenged by knowledge. Her insights will enable parents and teachers--many of them for the first time--to understand the grand idea that will emerge from the wireless age.--Thomas W. Evans, former Chairman of Trustees and Adjunct Professor of Educational Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University

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