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The Consumerization of Learning: How educators can co-opt consumer-grade digital courseware to transform learning in the Age of Experience - Softcover

Cauthen, Leilani

 
9781478782322: The Consumerization of Learning: How educators can co-opt consumer-grade digital courseware to transform learning in the Age of Experience

Synopsis

It is time to go "all-in" with digital transition and realize its true end-point.
 
Containing studied critiques and survival strategies, The Consumerization of Learning is a distillation of knowledge from the author's epic road trip to every major U.S. city. This is a book for educational leaders, teachers and parents as well as curriculum publishers. Find out about schools in the age of experience, the digital war for balance, what the future "you" will do to gain knowledge, the market blur, the jerk, digital curriculum evaluation, the hidden villain in institutional learning,teacher transformation, the anti-tech of love, educators as software mavens, schools becoming thrilling expos, conquering time, and other epiphanies.
 
Chapters include:

  • Conquering Time
  • The Grand Scheme
  • A Model Architecture for Schools
  • The Characteristics of Digital Curriculum
  • Evaluating Digital Curriculum
  • Un-gating Potential and Rigor
  • Love, the Anti-Tech
  • Paying for It
 
This is a deep dive into the disruption at hand for the way leaders lead education digitally. It highlights consumerization as the act of making something desirable and consumable by the individual. If schools fully discover and adapt to consumerization's ingenuity, it has the power to give teachers back time that can be turned to attention on students, to create more hands-on learning activities, and to guide students in the fullness of a digital learning experience.
 
Read this book and be part of the discussion about how schools are finding a new relevancy at the natural end-point of digital transition: maximized live experience and quality digital learning, also known as "expo"education.

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About the Author

LeiLani is the CEO and Publisher of the Learning Counsel, and Founder of KnowStory.com. She is well versed in the digital learning object universe,software development, the adoption process, school curriculum, and technology coverage models, and she is helping define this century's real change in teaching and learning. She is an author and media personality with twenty years of research, news media publishing, and market leadership in the high tech,education, and government industries.
 
Nearly every week, she is on the road meeting school superintendents and their staffs, telling them about the Learning Counsel's national research and helping spread change. She traveled to 87 cities between February 2014 and December 2016. The discussions she started so energized the nation that hundreds of thousands of educators are now avid followers of her work.

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