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Toward a Holistic Intelligence: Life on the Other Side of the
Digital Barrier is a critical examination of how the Internet, our
current digital age, and people's continuous use of digital devices
is adversely affecting their thought processes, working memories,
attention spans, and overall level of intelligence. In doing so, it
explores how a larger intelligence based primarily on direct
insight and creative absorption, qualities which are integrally
part of people's emotive and sensorial lives, might allow for a
clearer exploration of their world and themselves at a time in
which our cognitive lives are being so thoroughly abrogated by the
Internet and its resultant technologies.
Creative Learning for the Information Age: How Classrooms Can
Better Prepare Students, second edition examines how students in
their formative years can learn in a more creative manner and can
become successful in an age in which knowledge travels so rapidly
and is transformed so quickly. This book sets forth several
solutions, such as new skills that allow students to perceive
important relationships and connections within various subject
matters, a different type of accountability that is integrally tied
to student initiative, and a different learning structure that
allows teacher and student to work together to develop subject
matter which is more fully connected to the world of professional
expertise. Lyn Lesch also assesses certain barriers which may stand
in the way of students learning more creatively in our current
information age. In particular, he draws attention to an emphasis
on standardized testing and the introduction of national core
standards both of which significantly restrict the field of various
subject matters and thereby restrict creative thinking and learning
and the potential dulling of young people s inner lives along with
a potentially distracted awareness being engendered in them by the
technologies of our current digital age."
Toward a Holistic Intelligence: Life on the Other Side of the
Digital Barrier is a critical examination of how the Internet, our
current digital age, and people's continuous use of digital devices
is adversely affecting their thought processes, working memories,
attention spans, and overall level of intelligence. In doing so, it
explores how a larger intelligence based primarily on direct
insight and creative absorption, qualities which are integrally
part of people's emotive and sensorial lives, might allow for a
clearer exploration of their world and themselves at a time in
which our cognitive lives are being so thoroughly abrogated by the
Internet and its resultant technologies.
How to Prepare Students for the Information Age and Global
Marketplace examines how the structure of schools might be changed
so that students in their formative years are able to learn in a
manner that allows them to be more creative. The modern world is
shrinking as technology and connectivity create new ways to live,
communicate, and do business. Education and learning must follow
suit. In this regard, the book focuses on such key issues as the
process of actually learning how to learn; the sort of changing
relationship between teacher and student which needs to occur if
students are to learn more creatively; the development of a new set
of skills, particularly that of students developing their own
learning progressions in approaching various subject matter; and a
greater connection between school and the world of adult expertise.
The world is changing; so to must the way we educate our students.
Creative Learning for the Information Age: How Classrooms Can
Better Prepare Students, second edition examines how students in
their formative years can learn in a more creative manner and can
become successful in an age in which knowledge travels so rapidly
and is transformed so quickly. This book sets forth several
solutions, such as new skills that allow students to perceive
important relationships and connections within various subject
matters, a different type of accountability that is integrally tied
to student initiative, and a different learning structure that
allows teacher and student to work together to develop subject
matter which is more fully connected to the world of professional
expertise. Lesch also assesses certain barriers which may stand in
the way of students learning more creatively in our current
information age. In particular, he draws attention to an emphasis
on standardized testing and the introduction of national core
standards - both of which significantly restrict the field of
various subject matters and thereby restricting creative thinking
and learning - and the potential dulling of young people's inner
lives along with a potentially distracted awareness being
engendered in them by the technologies of our current digital age.
Learning Not Schooling: Reimagining the Purpose of Education
examines how both the curiosity and the initiative of students in
their formative years can be stimulated by partnering local schools
with the world of adult work and professional expertise. This
tactic addresses some of the issues that seem to continually plague
us, such as how to help students learn more effectively in the
modern age, or how to more fully address some of the perpetual
inequities between different socioeconomic groupings. Drawing on
his experiences from founding and directing a private school for
students age six to fourteen, Lyn Lesch presents a new model for
education in which learning for students increasingly occurs in the
world of adult expertise, with classroom teachers taking on the
role of conduits that not only prepare students to learn from
professionals working in various fields but also assist them in
absorbing the advanced information and knowledge they will be
acquiring.
Lyn Lesch advocates that learning cannot be measured by empirical
results like testing and grading. As the founder of Chicago's The
Children's School, Lesch didn't give grades or submit students to
standardized testing_such conditions may seem blasphemous to most
educators, but the results spoke for themselves. Without the
high-stakes pressure of results, accountability, and testing,
students were able to take a more active role in their education.
With reduced stress on performance, students can develop an
openness to the material and link learning to their own personal
experience. If the status quo goes unchanged, Lesch argues that
students will be schooled in a disembodied, dull manner that
prevents true learning and comprehension. To avoid this, Lesch
describes how education should revolve around each student's
personal experience (i.e., linking school with what matters to
individual students). Perhaps more than anything, this book is
intended to be a discussion point for developing a healthy
relationship between personal experience and academic learning.
Intelligence in the Digital Age examines how our current Internet
age and people's use of digital technologies may be affecting their
mental capacities and emotive lives in ways in which it will become
increasingly difficult for those people to explore a larger, more
expansive consciousness. After beginning with an examination of how
people's attention spans, working memories, and capacity for deep
thought and reading are being imperiled by their addictive use of
smart phones and PCs, the discussion continues with how this may be
occurring at a deep level at which the brain creates short and
long-term memories, pays attention, and thinks creatively. The book
then explores how these negative effects may impede the search to
explore the limits of one's thinking mind and memories in pursuit
of a larger intelligence. People may have fewer opportunities to be
successful in this pursuit simply because they will have lost
access to important personal dynamics due to the effects of the
digital world on their minds, brains, and inner lives.
Intelligence in the Digital Age examines how our current Internet
age and people's use of digital technologies may be affecting their
mental capacities and emotive lives in ways in which it will become
increasingly difficult for those people to explore a larger, more
expansive consciousness. After beginning with an examination of how
people's attention spans, working memories, and capacity for deep
thought and reading are being imperiled by their addictive use of
smart phones and PCs, the discussion continues with how this may be
occurring at a deep level at which the brain creates short and
long-term memories, pays attention, and thinks creatively. The book
then explores how these negative effects may impede the search to
explore the limits of one's thinking mind and memories in pursuit
of a larger intelligence. People may have fewer opportunities to be
successful in this pursuit simply because they will have lost
access to important personal dynamics due to the effects of the
digital world on their minds, brains, and inner lives.
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