Forget the doom and gloom about today's kids—Marc Prensky delivers a hopeful, action-driven roadmap for empowering young people to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Instead of stress and outdated systems, he advocates for high enthusiasm, real-world impact, and imagination-driven accomplishment by all young people.Prensky, coiner of the term “digital native,” argues that today’s youth aren’t broken—they’re evolving. But too often, adults hold the...

Step into the future with Empowered!, Marc Prensky's groundbreaking re-framing of today's kids and the new age they are living in. This book offers new and better ways to prepare all young people—who have dramatically new and different capabilities and beliefs from their 20th century-born parents—to achieve a meaningful and fulfilling adulthood in their own times. Prensky redefines the growing-up path for today’s youth, shifting from outdated notions of academic s...

"In an age where the answer to every question is at your fingertips, where does the human brain fit in?"In one hand-held object, we are able to manage all of our calendars, documents, and interpersonal relationships with such ease that many people are lost when forced to do perform these tasks without the aid of electronics. Often heard are the calls for less technology and more face-to-face interaction, for fear that the use of all this artificial intelligence is d...

“Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University“Marc Prensky was always ahead of his tim...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Helping Kids Thrive in a World That’s Changing Faster Than EverForget the doom and gloom about today's kids—Marc Prensky delivers a hopeful, action-driven roadmap for empowering young people to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Instead of stress and outdated systems, he advocates for high enthusiasm, real-world impact, and imagination-driven accomplishment by all young people.Prensky, coiner of the term “digital native,” argues t...

An expert perspective on 21st century educationWhat can you learn on a cell phone? Almost anything! How does that concept fit with our traditional system of education? It doesn′t. Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky′sbook of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers. His "bottom-up" vision is based on interviews with young people and includes their ideas about what t...

“McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies.” —The Boston Globe“Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better.” —San Jose Mercury News“Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same exp...

The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate.Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. Whats more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot prevail in the current social and media environment, where ele...

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift. Yet this "now" is an elusive goal that we can never quite reach. And the dissonance between our digital selves ...

New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping f...

Harvard Business Essentials are comprehensive, solution-oriented paperbacks for business readers of all levels of experience. Managing through change and crisis is difficult in any business environment, let alone one as turbulent as managers face today. This timely guide offers authoritative advice on how to recognize the need for organizational change, communicate the vision, prepare for structural change such as M&A, and address emotional responses to downsizing. With tools for managing ...

The era of social technologies provides seemingly endless opportunity, both for individuals and organizations. But it’s also the subject of seemingly endless hype. Yes, social tools allow us to do things entirely differently-but how do you really capitalize on that?In 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, the newest in Harvard Business Review’s line of digital books (HBR Singles), social strategist and insightful blogger Nilofer Merchant argues that soci...