Allan Collins comes to Penn State
April 19th, 11:15am -12:30pm
In room 113 IST building (Cybortorium)
 
or
 
Join us at the URL below to view the talk live.
http://live.ist.psu.edu/live/Viewer/?peid=31c2e2ba98ac45538c7705e9d341401d
 
The digital revolution has hit education, but are schools tapping into the learning potential of today’s technologically sophisticated generation?
 
Allan Collins and Richard Halverson in their new book “Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology : The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America”  argue that to keep pace with a globalized technological culture, we must rethink how we educate the next generation.
 
They offer a vision for the future of education that goes well beyond the walls of the classroom to include online social networks, distance learning with “anytime, anywhere” access, digital home schooling models, video- game learning environments, and more.
 
Collins is Professor Emeritus of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, the American Educational Research Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sponsored by: 
The Learning Sciences Group
Affiliated with the colleges of
Education, IST, and
Department of Psychology