The textbook & the lecture : education in the age of new media / Norm Friesen.

"Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining an uncertain high-tech future, but by examining a well-documented pas...

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Main Author: Friesen, Norm (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Tech.edu.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface : Education as technological from the start. Part I : Education and media, new and old. No more pencils, no more books?
  • Writing instruction in the twenty-first century : 2000 BCE versus 2000 CE
  • Part II : Media, psychology, and theory. Psychology and the rationalist "transcript of the mind"
  • The romantic tradition : "a cry of nature"
  • Romantic versus rationalist reform
  • Theorizing media--by the book
  • Part III : The textbook and the lecture : re-forming the book and performing the text. A textbook case
  • From Translatio Studiorum to "intelligences thinking in unison"
  • The lecture as postmodern performance
  • Conclusion : educations and generations.