The twenty-first century is a World in Constant change.
Marcia Conner, author of The New Social Learning Douglas T.
Revolutionary.
Insightful.
Paul Courant, Dean of Libraries, University of Michigan Brilliant.
Pearls of wisdom leap from almost every page.
Henry Jenkins, Provost\'s Professor, USC A New Culture of Learning is at once persuasive and optimistic - a combination that is all too rare, but that flows directly from its authors\' insights about learning in the digital age.
Cathy Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University A New Culture of Learning may provide for the digital media and learning movement what Thomas Paine\'s Common Sense did for the colonists during the American Revolution- a straightforward, direct explanation of what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.
Duderstadt, President Emeritus, University of Michigan Thomas and Brown are the John Dewey of the digital age.
James J.
This is a must read for anyone interested in the future of education.
PRAISE FOR A NEW Culture OF LEARNING A provocative and extremely important new paradigm of a \'Culture of learning\', appropriate for a World characterized by continual change.
Replete with stories, this is a book that looks at the challenges that our education and learning environments face in a fresh way.
The result is a new form of Culture in which knowledge is seen as fluid and evolving, the personal is both enhanced and refined in relation to the collective, and the ability to manage, negotiate and participate in the World is governed by the play of the imagination.
By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the Imagination as cornerstones of learning, the authors create a vision of learning for the future that is achievable, scalable and one that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people who engage with it.
It not only adapts, it integrates Change into its process as one of its environmental variables.
In A New Culture, Thomas and Brown explore a second sense of culture, one that responds to its surroundings organically.
Typically, when we think of culture, we think of an existing, stable entity that changes and evolves over long periods of time.
In A New Culture of Learning, Doug Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic.
The twenty-first century is a World in Constant change
