Tony Wagner, Ed.D.
Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute and bestselling author
Ulrik Juul Christensen, MD
Chief Strategist at the Area9 Group
Fernande Raine, Ph.D.
Historian, Social Entrepreneur, and Founder and Co-Lead of History Co:Lab
Mastery: Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of Distraction
BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY! FAN is giving away copies of Mastery to randomly selected Zoom attendees. Details on the webinar registration page.
How much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers where lifelong learning is essential to succeed? These problems stem from an educational system that uses time spent in a classroom and the results of standardized, multiple-choice tests as proxies for actual understanding. In their new book, Mastery: Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of Distraction, educators Tony Wagner, Ed.D., and Ulrik Juul Christensen, MD, call for a radical new system of learning, where students progress individually when they demonstrate that they can use what they have learned—no matter how long it takes to get there. This is called mastery learning, and it is the future of education.
This book shows how mastery learning is already being used in the United States and around the world, from kindergarten to college and in the workplace. Through conversations with teachers, students, parents, policymakers, and employers, Wagner and Christensen show how mastery improves motivation and prepares students for productive work, an engaged civic life, and personal growth and well-being. They also outline the challenges of adopting mastery learning and how to overcome them. Mastery is an urgent call to action to transform education for all.
Christensen is a globally recognized authority in learning technology, and a co-founder of Area9 Group, a leader in personalized and adaptive learning. His current focus is on Area9 Lyceum, which has integrated the group’s educational investments and technologies to develop the fourth-generation adaptive learning platform and to pioneer four-dimensional education.
Wagner currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. He was the founder and co-director, for more than a decade, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of eight books, including the international bestseller The Global Achievement Gap.
Christensen and Wagner will be in conversation with Fernande Raine, Ph.D., a historian, serial entrepreneur, and Founder and Co-Lead of History Co:Lab.
This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.
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