Brain Gain : Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom (Hardcover) 9780230338098

from eduscapes

Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom by Marc Prensky is a natural extension of his other books related to technology. Having read his other works, I was looking forward to his latest venture. I wasn't disappointed. The book kicks off with a discussion of the tie that's formed ...

from donbuch1

Wisdom these days may be hard to obtain in our modern world of so many gimmicky distractions. However, Prensky believes we can "extract" the wisdom of the past to help us improve our understanding of technology and how it affects culture. This is a welcome message since so many social critics for...

from lbeaumont

Rejecting the popular opinion that rapidly increasing reliance on technology makes us dumber and less human, Marc Prensky argues persuasively that we can-and do-use technology to make us wiser. While the human mind is unsurpassed in creativity, learning from experience, understanding context, app...

from Helcura

Marc Prensky has some good ideas. Unfortunately this book (with proper editing) would have been better as an extended article for a magazine like Atlantic or The New Yorker. The book is vague, repetitive and meandering. There is a lot of speculation and a disappointingly small amount of informati...

from jaden

The premise of the book and the technologies it mentioned were like a siren song to my interests. However, the lack of detailed research and deep understanding of the technologies covered were a disappointment. Instead of trying to cover so much, the author could have made a more convincing argum...