Thinking Skills for the Digital Generation The Development of Thinki
This important text synthesizes the state of knowledge related to thinking and technology and provides strategies for helping young people cultivate thinking skills required to navigate the new digital landscape. The rise of technology has resulted in new
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inking Skills for the Digital Generation The Development of Thinking and Learning in the Age of Information
Thinking Skills for the Digital Generation
Balu H. Athreya • Chrystalla Mouza
Thinking Skills for the Digital Generation The Development of Thinking and Learning in the Age of Information
Balu H. Athreya Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania – Perelman School of Medicine and Thomas Jefferson University – Sidney Kimmel Medical College Philadelphia, PA, USA
Chrystalla Mouza School of Education University of Delaware Newark, DE, USA
Teaching Consultant Nemours- A.I.duPont Hospital for Children Wilmington, De
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Preface
Education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. —Ernest Dimnet
The twenty-first century invites us to retool our thinking skills and habits. It does so because of three different factors, related to the future, present, and past. Our future, besides being not fully knowable, will be dominated by technology and humanmachine interactions. It will also be characterized by advances in our understanding of how the brain works, which might change fundamental ideas around thinking and learning. Our present is already undergoing a major digital revolution in human communication, similar to that experienced with the invention of writing and the printing press. Further, globalization has reached new heights, while polarization on matters related to the past is evident. Faith and reason have taken opposite corners, as if they occupy discrete portions o
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