Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Essential Skills in a Changing World
Chapter 2: Thinking and Learning in a technologically-intensive
world
Chapter 3: Collaborative Learning: A Role for Small Groups in
Preparing Tomorrow’s Innovators
Chapter 4: Communication Technologies
Chapter 5: Science and Math: Focus, Inquiry, and
Creative Problem Solving
Chapter 6: Reading and Writing: Literacy and Language Skills
in a Changing World
Chapter 7: Arts Education: Connections, Knowledge,
and Informed Encounters
Dennis Adams, Ph.D., is a Canadian educational consultant who has
taught classes at McGill University in Montreal. He is author of
more than 12 books and a hundred journal articles on various
educational topics.
Mary Hamm is a Professor at San Francisco State University. Her
specialties are science and mathematics. She has worked on both
science and math standards project and has published more than 10
books and 80 journal articles on these topics.
Tomorrow's Innovators is a highly informative book for teachers,
administrators, and involved parents. This book recognizes the fact
that new research, standards, and technologies challenge the
teacher to generate new ways of thinking, learning, and interacting
with students. Dennis Adams and Mary Hamm also provide teachers
with ideas and strategies that will help with the curriculum
changes required in a digitalized and innovation-based world.
*Cindy Mazoch, teacher, Stevens Point, Wisconsin*
Adams and Hamm provide insight and a new dream for creating a
culture for twenty-first-century learning. Tomorrow's Innovators
provides a framework for helping teachers transform the fundamental
elements in today's experiences that awaken creativity and energy.
A must read for developing essential skills in a changing world,
this book gives us a view of global competition and of the
revitalization of the nation's schools.
*Donna Frenzel, Wisconsin teacher and university lecturer*
Tomorrow's Innovators offers fresh insight to educators through
useful activities which convey critical skills. Collaborative
learning is followed to ignite student learning, enhancing their
imagination to follow up on individual curiosity. Since knowledge
is rarely constructed in isolation, this publication takes in years
of experience and presents it in a easy to use format.
*James L. Ring, Teacher, New Brunswick, Canada*
Tomorrow's Innovators provides a comprehensive overview of current
trends in education. It is especially useful for teachers who want
a clear idea of where things are going. The book highlights the
value of collaborative teaching and provides strategies suited to
the modern classroom. The authors draw connections between
traditional subjects, today's essential skills, and the evolving
technology of tomorrow.
*Meaghan Storey, Teacher, New Brunkswick, Canada*
Tomorrow's Innovators is a great tool for teachers dealing with a
rapidly changing, innovation based world. It highlights how
technology can be used effectively for the advantage of teachers
and students in developing 21st century skills. It provides
teachers with a clean framework to foster creativity and critical
thought in the classroom. Overall, an important read for teachers
of all students.
*James Strickland, Teacher, Newfoundland, Canada*
Tomorrow’s Innovators presents an interesting, innovative and
well-planned approach to collaborative teaching in all areas of the
curriculum which is easily modified to accommodate student learning
at all grade and skill levels. Adams and Hamm examine how learning
in a small group setting improves cooperation, responsibility,
group member respect, and individual self-esteem that is well
defined and detailed. They point out that technological innovation
in education requires that changes be made in instructional
concepts, their presentation, and student involvement in order to
be congruent in today’s technological age. Before using technology
in the classroom, they suggest that teachers ask whether or not it
will do a better job than paper, math manipulatives or clay. The
book also suggests strategies for effective collaborative
instruction in the basic skills areas --- reading, writing, math,
science, technology,
and the arts.
*J. Bird, teacher,special needs children, Sacramento, CA*
The slightly prophetic tone of the title aptly reflects the
contents of Adams and Hamm’s detailed and stimulating exploration
of the challenges and rewards facing teachers in the immediate and
more distant future. This is a book with a clear philosophical and
ideological agenda, which argues unapologetically that a radical
change needs to take place in pedagogical practice nationwide in
order to prevent the education sector stagnating and falling out of
step with the demands of the post-secondary world. But the authors
are not prophets of doom: on the contrary, theirs is a message of
hope, and the book digresses in some detail on the various
strategies for incorporating new and emerging technologies into the
classroom that the authors have identified as most effective and
efficient. The book is therefore both a philosophical and a
practical manual for teachers and educational theorists, and its
lively, engaging tone encourages readers to appreciate the benefits
derived from these new modes of learning, rather than the
detriments.
*Teachers College Record*
Adams (McGill Univ., Canada) and Hamm (San Francisco State Univ.)
identify dealing with "the convergence of thinking and
technological tools" as fundamental to successful education in this
book's introductory chapter. This thesis is partially developed for
the intended readers, presumably elementary school teachers and
teachers-in-preparation, in two of the remaining six chapters:
"Thinking and Learning in a Technologically Intensive World" and
"Communication Technologies." Chapters include insightful lesson
plans and activities, as well as a list of references. Useful ideas
for teaching and learning are presented throughout. Summing Up:
Recommended.
*CHOICE*
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