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 Prensky redefines the growing-up path for today’s youth, shifting from outdated notions of academic s...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...

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 Instead of stress and outdated systems, he advocates for high enthusiasm, real-world impact, and imagination-driven accomplishment by all young people.Prensky, coiner of the term “digital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...

“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...

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...

"This book is a must-read for any educator who wants to successfully work with the digital generation, because it is so practical and filled with ideas to engage 21st-century students."—Ian Jukes, Author of Teaching the Digital Generation"A truly great and inspiring book. My students are a testament that partnering does work."—Randon Ruggles, TeacherFAIR School, Minneapolis, MN"Finally someone has written a book for teache...

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...

“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...

Most leaders assume they're good communicators. What they're actually doing—most of the time—is telling. And telling, even when well-intentioned, is a subtle power move that shuts people down, withholds critical information, and quietly erodes trust.Humble Inquiry makes the case for a different approach: asking questions you genuinely don't know the answers to, from a posture of curiosity rather than authority.What you'll find inside this f...

**“A fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experience—it may actually enrich the quality of our lives” (Adam Grant)—from the visionary co-founder of one of today’s most innovative technology companies“This important book offers a highly persuasive argument that the metaverse, a new kind of virtual world, marks a profound next stage in this long human quest for fulfillment through creation.”—Chris Anderson, head of TED**The co...

"The work that Carol Sanford describes in The Regenerative Business profoundly changed my life, and I'm confident it will change yours too." - Jeffrey Hollender, Founding CEO, Seventh GenerationWhat if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new-something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceabl...