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'''= author about the future of education''' | '''= American author about the future of education''' | ||
URL = http://www.anyakamenetz.net/ | URL = http://www.anyakamenetz.net/ | ||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
"Anya is endlessly curious about learning and the future. | |||
Her book The Art of Screen Time (PublicAffairs, 2018) is the first, essential, don’t-panic guide to kids, parents, and screens. | |||
Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), dealt with youth economics and politics; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010), investigated innovations to address the crises in cost, access, and quality in higher education. The Test (PublicAffairs, 2015), is about the past, present and future of testing in American schools. | |||
[http://learningfreedomandtheweb.org/ Learning, Freedom and the Web], [http://diyubook.com/2011/07/now-available-for-free-download-the-edupunks-guide/ The Edupunks’ Guide], and the Edupunks’ Atlas are her free web projects about self-directed, web-enabled learning. | |||
Anya is an education correspondent for NPR. Her team’s blog is at [http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/ NPR.org/ed]. Previously she covered technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine. | |||
She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post and won 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards from the Education Writers Association. NPR Ed won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association. | |||
She appears in the documentaries Generation Next (2006), Default: A Student Loan Documentary (2011), both shown on PBS, and Ivory Tower, distributed by Participant Media. | |||
Anya grew up in Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University in 2002. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters." | |||
(http://www.anyakamenetz.net/about/) | |||
==More Information== | ==More Information== | ||
* [[Anya Kamenetz on the DIY Future of Learning]] | * [[Anya Kamenetz on the DIY Future of Learning]] | ||
* [[Edupunks Guide to a DIY Credential]] | * [[Edupunks Guide to a DIY Credential]] | ||
* [[Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education]] | |||
* [[Getting Started With Self Learning]] | |||
* [http://www.anyakamenetz.net/ Main web site] | * [http://www.anyakamenetz.net/ Main web site] | ||
* [https://www.npr.org/people/302894536/anya-kamenetz bio on NPR] | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Kamenetz Wikipedia page] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Kamenetz Wikipedia page] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:31, 26 March 2018
= American author about the future of education
URL = http://www.anyakamenetz.net/
Description
"Anya is endlessly curious about learning and the future.
Her book The Art of Screen Time (PublicAffairs, 2018) is the first, essential, don’t-panic guide to kids, parents, and screens.
Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), dealt with youth economics and politics; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010), investigated innovations to address the crises in cost, access, and quality in higher education. The Test (PublicAffairs, 2015), is about the past, present and future of testing in American schools.
Learning, Freedom and the Web, The Edupunks’ Guide, and the Edupunks’ Atlas are her free web projects about self-directed, web-enabled learning.
Anya is an education correspondent for NPR. Her team’s blog is at NPR.org/ed. Previously she covered technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She’s contributed to The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post and won 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards from the Education Writers Association. NPR Ed won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
She appears in the documentaries Generation Next (2006), Default: A Student Loan Documentary (2011), both shown on PBS, and Ivory Tower, distributed by Participant Media.
Anya grew up in Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University in 2002. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters."
(http://www.anyakamenetz.net/about/)