Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns - Hardcover

Christensen, Clayton; Johnson, Curtis; Horn, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071592067 ISBN 13: 9780071592062

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Synopsis

“Disruptive Innovation” makes it possible for simple, affordable, and accessible products to replace products that are complex, expensive and inaccessible. Classic examples from business are: Toyota replacing Ford, the PC replacing the mainframe, and Southwest replacing any other airline. Disruptive Innovation is a game changer, and in the Disrupting Class, Clayton Christensen’s application of disruptive innovation to the education system will change the debate and redefine how we look at education forever. The way the educational system is set up forces standardisation. But each student – whether child or adult - learns in a different way and has different needs - and therefore needs customisation. Disrupting Class uses the theories of disruptive innovation to show how schools and training organisations can overcome this dilemma.
Society now asks this system to do something it has never before done: educate every member. To tackle this, schools and organisations must make learning intrinsically motivating for each student.

In the education and training field, the disruptive innovation that Christensen argues for is computer based learning replacing the current teacher centric classroom model. Computer based learning is different from simply “buying computers for the classroom” – and Christensen explains exactly how computer based learning can become the disruptive innovation that makes education more affordable, accessible, and customisable so that students truly learn more.

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From the Back Cover

WARNING: THIS BOOK WILL CHALLENGE

EVERYTHING YOU EVER LEARNED-ABOUT LEARNING

After a barrage of business books that purport to 'fix' American education, at last a book that speaks thoughtfully and imaginatively about what genuinely individualized education can be like and how to bring it about.
-Howard Gardner, author of Five Minds for the Future

A decade ago, Clayton Christensen wrote a masterpiece, The Innovator's Dilemma, that transformed the way business looks at innovation. Now, he and two collaborators, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson, have come up with another, focusing his groundbreaking theories of disruptive innovation on education."
-David Gergen, US Presidential Advisor

Clayton Christensen's insights just might shake many of us in education out of our complacency and into a long neededdisruptive discourse about really fixing our schools. This will be a welcome change after decades in which powerful calls to action have resulted in only marginal improvements for our nation's school children.
-Vicki Phillips, director of Education, Gates Foundation

Full of strategies that are both bold and doable, this brilliant and seminal book shows how we can utilize technology to customize learning. I recommend it most enthusiastically.
-Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester (NY) Teachers Association, and vice president of the American Federation of Teachers

"Finally we have a book from the business community that gets it. Disrupting Class from Clayton Christensen and colleagues points out that motivation is central to learning and that if schools and learning are to be transformed as they must be, motivation must be at the center of the work. They also point out how technology should be used to personalize learning and what the future might look like for schools. A must read for anyone thinking and worrying about where education should be headed."
-Paul Houston, Executive Director, American Association of School Administrators

Powerful, proven strategies for moving education from stagnation to evolution.
-Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Clayton Christensen and colleagues describe how disruptive technologies will personalize and, as a result, revolutionize learning. Every education leader should read this book, set aside their next staff meeting to discuss it, and figure out how they can be part of the improvement wave to come.
-Tom Vander Ark, President, X PRIZE Foundation

In Disrupting Class, Christensen, Horn and Johnson argue that the next round of innovation in school reform will involve learning software. While schools have resisted integrating technology for instruction, today's students are embracing technology in their everyday lives. This book offers promise to education reformers.
-Kathleen McCartney, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

The genius of Disrupting Class is the spotlight the book throws on how we can tap children s early enthusiasm for school by letting them learn in best-choice, individualized ways, the teacher s role transformed from sage on stage to guide on the side.
--Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer

From the Inside Flap

"A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to the a muddled and chaotic world of education." Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071592067
• ISBN 13: 9780071592062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256