THE UNIVERSITY OF GOOGLE: EDUCATION IN THE (POST) INFORMATION AGE

Book ID/图书代码： 08B25765

English Summary/英文概要： Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been starved of funding. Teachers cram their curriculum with ’skill development’ and ’generic competencies’ because knowledge, creativity and originality are too expensive to provide to unmotivated students and parents obsessed with league tables, not learning.Meanwhile, the internet offers a glut of information on everything-under-the-sun, a mere mouse-click away. Bored surfers fill their cursors and minds with irrelevancies. We lose the capacity to sift, discard and judge. Information is no longer for social good, but for sale.Tara Brabazon argues that this information fetish has been profoundly damaging to our learning institutions and to the ambitions of our students and educators. In "The University of Google", she projects a defiant and passionate vision of education as a pathway to renewal, where research is based on searching and students are on a journey through knowledge, rather than consumers in the shopping centre of cheap ideas.Angry, humorous and practical in equal measure, "The University of Google" is based on real teaching experience and on years of engaged and sometimes exasperated reflection on it.

It is far from a luddite critique of the information age. Tara Brabazon celebrates the possibilities of digital platforms in education, but deplores the consequences of placing funding on technology and not teachers. In doing so, she opens a new debate on how to make our educational system both productive and provocative in the (post-) information age.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 教育和學習開始大量失去意義與熱衷，我們便越來越難去定位學校的功能。現今的知識、創意和原創力對於沒有學習動力的學生而使家長著迷於補習教育而非學校的學習，教師便以「技能發展」和「通識能力」填鴨課程來教育學生。
同時，網路提供過量的訊息，只要按一下滑鼠，不相關的許多事填充接受者的腦袋。我們喪失了轉換和判斷的能力。資訊不再是為了社會的福祉而是為了人們的安全感。這樣的資訊迷戀已經全然損壞我們的學習本能以及我們學生與教育者的熱誠。
在本書中，作者提出大膽且熱情的教育觀點有如革新的小徑，建立尋找知識旅程中的基礎。幽默和實際觀點等量地展現本書中，這是以真實教學經驗為基礎的著述。作者也並非反對資訊時代到來的陳腐觀點。Tara Brabazon歡喜於數位教育平台發展的可能性，但哀嘆於在科技上的募集資金而非師資的結果。藉由此書觀點，她開啟一個新議題關於如何讓教育系統在後資訊時代中同時有生產力與活力。(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：’A passionate, scholarly, deeply considered and, at the same time, “practical” critique of how universities internationally confuse access to digital information with developing educated and critical citizens. The book will be of value in positively shaping both pedagogic practice and institutional policies.’---Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes University, UK

’The University of Google is my book of the year for 2007. I have nagged colleagues and friends to read ever since I saw a manuscript copy. It will have a huge impact on everyone in higher education, helping those suspicious of new media to formulate their criticisms and those eager to adopt it better placed to introduce it appropriately.’---Frank Webster, City University London, UK

’Angry, experiential and humorous, this book connects with the modern teaching experience in so many ways. Any tutor, teacher or administrator who has ever had to upload a series of lecture notes with the knowledge that many students will merely download the notes and not attend the lecture will engage with this book. The pages offer guidance to bridging the gap between principles and practice. It offers practical steps to blocking students from googling their way through their degrees…This is an engaging book that should grace the shelves of any digitally-aspirant teacher.’---M/C Reviews, media-culture.org.au

’It is a thoroughly researched and clearly argued work, written with passion and commitment…As the title suggests, The University of Google tackles the problems and possibilities of the online and digital realm. Brabazon is not a Luddite, and understands that such media and spaces have potential for higher education: the fault is not with the media per se, but how or why it might be used…Perhaps it is for those policy makers further up the academic pecking order that The University of Google would make the most interesting reading, as ultimately it is their decisions that affect those of us at the chalk-face.’---Art/Design/Media – The Higher Education Academy

’…this is an exhilarating book and I recommend it unreservedly: anyone working in education (and especially Vice Chancellors, Presidents or Rectors) ought to read this book and then go away and ask themselves why they aren’t doing better by society and by the students they enroll in their institutions.’---Information Research

’This book has some important things to say about what we should be doing to safeguard the quality of education, about what education is, its purpose, and how technology should be our servant not the servant of our masters. I recommend it strongly. ’---Ariadne

’Professor Brabazon speaks from her experience in both Australia and the United Kingdon as a media studies lecturer. She draws on a rich reserve of stories from and about her students, as well as reports and commentaries from a broad range of academic and cultural sources...’---Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development

’In The University of Google, Tara Brabazon offers practical suggestions for dealing with dilemmas of digital plagiarism, i-lectures, and the e-university…The University of Google aims to provide constructive solutions to educating students from under-represented groups in the age of the internet…she offers practical suggestions for teaching students critical literacy in the age of the internet, including frank and personal details that confront her in daily life…the book is creatively and engagingly written, broad and ambitious in scope…’---International Review of Modern Sociology

About the Author/作者介绍： Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, UK, and Director of the Popular Culture Collective.

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