Rewiring Education, John D. Couch
Rewiring Education, John D. Couch
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Rewiring Education
How Technology Can Unlock Every Student’s Potential

Author: John D. Couch, Jason Towne, Steve Wozniak

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/08/2018


Synopsis

What if we could unlock the potential in every child? As it turns out, we can.

Apple's iconic cofounder Steve Jobs had a powerful vision for education: employing technology to make an enormous impact on the lives of millions of students. To realize this vision, Jobs tapped John D. Couch, a trusted engineer and executive with a passion for education. Couch believed the real purpose of education was to help children discover their unique potential and empower them to reach beyond their perceived limitations.

Today, technology is increasingly integrated into every aspect of our lives, rewiring our homes, our jobs, and even our brains. Most important, it presents an opportunity to rewire education to enrich and strengthen our schools, children, and society.

In Rewiring Education, Couch shares expertise gained from fifty-plus years in education and technology. He takes listeners behind Apple's major research studies, Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) and ACOT2, highlighting the powerful effects of the Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) framework. Going beyond Apple's walls, he also introduces some of the extraordinary parents, educators, and entrepreneurs from around the world who are already utilizing new science-backed methods and technologies to benefit all children, from those who struggle to honor students.


About John D. Couch

John D. Couch, Apple's first vice president of education, has always been a proponent of personalized learning. Couch was recruited by Steve Jobs in 1978, becoming Apple's fifty-fourth employee. He left in 1984 to help a struggling K-12 school in San Diego that is now a National Blue Ribbon School. At Jobs's request, Couch returned to Apple in 2002, tasked with bringing education into the digital age. He was Apple's representative for President Obama's National Education Technology Plan and ConnectEd initiative and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Philadelphia for "Innovation in Education."


Reviews

Rewiring Education discusses many ways to unlock every child’s potential. The key word in that sentence in relation to this book is every. Couch states, "I believe we should prepare every child to be extraordinary, which means making opportunities available to them to be so, and that begins with a q......more

Goodreads review by Kim

“I believe it’s time we stopped trying to repair and replace education and start rewiring it.” John D. Couch writes this in his book, Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student’s Potential. But what does this mean? According to Couch, “What’s really needed is rewiring—upgrading our......more

Goodreads review by Carrie

As an instructional design student, this title intrigued me a lot. It covered many great points about education and parenting in a digital world. The exploration of the many ways that technology can compliment traditional classroom learning are a great method of exposing the innumerable educational......more