The document summarizes key chapters from a book about the development and evolution of the American school system and education. It traces education from apprenticeships through the rise of universal schooling and discusses more recent developments like online learning, homeschooling, and technology-based education. It explores both potential benefits like more engaging and customized learning, as well as potential drawbacks such as a decline in liberal arts or equitable access. Overall, it examines how education is being transformed by new technologies and lifelong learning and calls for a rethinking of education systems and models in this new technological world.

1. Final book report

2. Chapter 4:The Development of American
Schooling
Universal
Schooling:
resulted in the
Apprenticeship: invention of the
education is the printing press,
responsibility of Reformation,
the family The American
Horace Mann: Revolution, and
education = the Industrial
social cohesion Revolution

3. Thomas Jefferson during
the American Revolution:
“Preach, my dear sir, a
crusade against ignorance;
establish and improve the
law for educating the
common people. Let our
countrymen know…that
the tax which will be paid
for this purpose is not
more than the thousandth
part of what will be paid to
kings, priests and nobles
who will rise up among us
if we leave the people in
ignorance.”

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5. Chapter 5: The Seeds of a New System of
Education
As technology drives education,
schools will have less of a role in
student learning.

6. Home Schooling
“Teachers view themselves as experts, whose role is
to convey knowledge to students. In contrast,
Home schooling has increased 29% in 4 years parents do not think of themselves as experts and,
hence, they take on the role of a coach much more
naturally. The role of coach puts more
responsibility for learning onto the student.”
Home Schooling
These students score in the 87th percentile on
41% used some form of distance learning
standardized tests.

7. Workplace Learning
& Distance Education
• Some corporations are • University of Phoenix: most successful
“faced with remedial training needs for online university in USA with more than
the kinds of knowledge and skills that 30,000 online students (pg. 75)
students should learn in schools.” (pg. 71) • Virtual high school programs: Utah:35,000
• Online training games that teach customer online students and Florida: 21,000 online
service students
• “Eureka”: an online learning system • Distance Education, though still viewed by
created by Xerox to allow workers to many as inferior to traditional education,
share stories about how they learned to will continue to offer learners to advance
problem solve when the manuals didn’t their careers.
contain information they needed to repair
equipment
• Military: simulations which allow trainees
to drive tanks in virtual terrains,
interacting with experts trained in enemy
tactics

8. Adult Education & Learning Centers
“The adult education movement is a Learning Centers
manifestation of the new spirit of
lifelong learning.” (pg. 78)
Philadelphia has hired
PR to teach math skills
to increase test scores.
Sylvan is now one of
the largest
corporations in the US.

9. Educational TV &
Videos: The Electric
POSITIVES: Company
1. Reaches children from different
backgrounds
2. Teaches basic skills like phonics
and counting skills
3. Certain shows educate adults as
well with programming about
science, nature, history, politics,
Sesame Street
art, music, & theater (EX: History
Channel)
NEGATIVES:
1. For many children, watching
videos and TV has led to inactivity
and spending less time outdoors
2. Adult TV shows are exposing
children to too much (drugs, sex,
violence, adultery, etc.), causing
“the disappearance of childhood”
Barney
{Neil Postman, pg. 83) The Muppet
Show

10. Computer-based Learning Software:
+ Can provide more compelling learning environments
- Can create a sedentary lifestyle

11. Chapter 6: The Three Eras of Education
Apprenticeship
Universal
Schooling
Lifelong
Learning
Responsibility is shifting back to
the parents and the individual.

12. Chapter 7: What May Be Lost and What
May Be Gained
What may be lost: What may be gained:
• The cohesion of a common • Learning becomes more engaging
culture as education splits • Learners choose topics of interest
off into specialized groups to them and are, therefore, more
motivated to learn
• Equitable access to learning • Computers/programs are
with new technologies customized to meet learners’
• Public schools are left with needs (scaffolding, etc.)
uninterested students • Access to knowledge anytime
anywhere
• Decline of liberal arts with
• Students are in charge of their
individualization own learning
• Isolation & depression

13. Chapter 8: How Schools Can Cope With the
New Technologies
• “providing people with the
Interaction • “putting learners in charge of
knowledge they want when their own learning whenever
they want it and supporting • “the ability of computers to possible, so that they feel
and guiding people give learners immediate ownership and can direct
individually as they learn.” feedback and to engage their learning wherever their
learners actively in interests take them.”
accomplishing realistic tasks.”
Learner
Customization
Control

14. Chapter 9: What Does It
All Mean?
“For the first time in history, children
are more comfortable, knowledgeable,
and literate than their parents about
an innovation central to society…They
are a force for social transformation.”
~Don Tapscott

15. Chapter 10: Rethinking Education in a
Technological World
RETHINKING…
• Learning
• Motivation
• What is important to learn
• Careers
• Transitions between learning & work
• Educational leadership
• The role of government in education
• Our vision of the future