
Sage on the Screen
Education, Media, and How We Learn
Bill Ferster(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 10. January 2017
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-4214-2126-1 (ISBN)
Description
Since the days of Thomas Edison, technology has held the promise of lowering the cost of education. The fantasy of leveraging a fixed production cost to reach an unlimited number of consumers is an enticing economic proposition, one that has been repeatedly attempted with each new media format, from radio and television to MOOCs, where star academics make online video lectures available to millions of students at little cost. In Sage on the Screen, Bill Ferster explores the historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives of using broadcast media to teach by examining a century of efforts to use it at home and in the classroom. Along the way, he shares stories from teachers, administrators, entrepreneurs, and innovators who promoted the use of cutting-edge technology-while critically evaluating their motives for doing so. Taking a close look at the origins of various media forms, their interrelatedness, and their impact on education thus far, Ferster asks why broadcast media has been so much more successful at entertaining people than it has been at educating them.
Accessibly written and full of explanatory art, Sage on the Screen offers fresh insight into the current and future uses of instructional technology, from K-12 through non-institutionally-based learning.
Accessibly written and full of explanatory art, Sage on the Screen offers fresh insight into the current and future uses of instructional technology, from K-12 through non-institutionally-based learning.
Reviews / Votes
The book is easy to read, with great illustrations and personal stories. The changes in hardware and software are also well explained and made friendly for non-experts... Helpful for producing more nuanced and complex arguments about how media and technology have contributed to schooling and learning.-Ines Dussel, Center for Advanced Research and Studies, Mexico, History of Education
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
6 s/w Zeichnungen, 72 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
72 Halftones, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4214-2126-1 (9781421421261)
DOI
10.1353/book.48032
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01/2017
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Person
Bill Ferster is a research professor at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the director of visualization for the Sciences, Humanities & Arts Technology Initiative (SHANTI). He is the author of Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry and Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology.
Content
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Traditional media2. Interactive media3. Hyper media4. Cloud media5. Immersive media6. Making sense of media for learning NotesIndex