Education Outrage - Softcover

Schank, Roger C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989151131 ISBN 13: 9780989151139

Publisher: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, 2016

Synopsis

Roger Schank is outraged. He has had it with the stupid, lazy, greedy, cynical, and uninformed forces setting outrageous education policy, wrecking childhood, and preparing students for a world that will never exist. His keen intellect, courage, and razor-sharp wit cuts away several layers of conventional wisdom; causing readers to confront their own prejudices and school-distorted notions of learning. No sacred cow is off limit – even some species you never considered. The short essays in this book will make you mad, sad, argue with your friends, and take action. Most of all, Education Outrage is funny as hell. Dr. Roger Schank is an expert learner and expert on learning. His professional accomplishments could fill several lifetimes. Schank is a distinguished university professor, mathematician, linguist, computer scientist, artificial intelligence pioneer, entrepreneur, TV host, software developer, author, parent, grandparent, and softball player. Education Outrage is a curated anthology of essays from his popular blog, illuminating the problems with standardized testing, outdated curriculum, MOOCs, online learning, education reform schemes, teaching to the test, international rankings in education, college admissions, and much more. The book concludes with a chapter of practical ideas on how to fix what's wrong with our current concept of school, and advice for current students who wonder if school is relevant to their lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger C. Schank, PhD Dr. Schank is the founder of the renowned Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, where he is John P. Evans Professor Emeritus in Computer Science, Education and Psychology. He was Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Yale University and Director of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project. He was a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics at Stanford University and research fellow at the Institute for Semantics and Cognition in Switzerland. He also served as the Distinguished Career Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a fellow of the AAAI and was founder of the Cognitive Science Society and co-founder of the Journal of Cognitive Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Texas. In 1994, he founded Cognitive Arts Corporation, a company that designs and builds high quality multimedia simulations for use in corporate training and for online university-level courses. The latter were built in partnership with Columbia University. In 2002 he founded Socratic Arts, a company that is devoted to making high quality e-learning affordable for both businesses and schools. He is the author of more than 20 books on learning, language, artificial intelligence, education, memory, reading, e-learning, and story telling. The most recent are Make School Meaningful – and Fun!, Virtual Learning, Coloring Outside the Lines: Raising a Smarter Kid by Breaking All the Rules, Scrooge meets Dick and Jane, Engines for Education, and Designing World Class E-Learning. Roger Schank’s website is at: www.rogerschank.com The Education Outrage blog can be found at: educationoutrage.blogspot.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0989151131
• ISBN 13: 9780989151139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308