Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 132
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4758-5457-2 • Hardback • November 2019 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
978-1-4758-5458-9 • Paperback • November 2019 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
978-1-4758-5459-6 • eBook • November 2019 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
After founding and directing his own democratically run school for children ages six to fourteen for twelve years, one that received widespread attention in the Chicago area as a unique approach to education, Lyn Lesch has written four books on education reform, all of them emphasizing the importance of what occurs inside a young person while they learn. He has a lifelong interest in pursuing a larger consciousness.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Search for Something Larger in a New Age
Chapter 2. Digital Minds
Chapter 3. Habituated to Addiction
Chapter 4. Thought, Memory, and Reality
Chapter 5. A Distracted Awareness and the River of Thought
Chapter 6. Creative Thought and the Digital Barrier
Chapter 7. Art and Culture in the Digital Age
Chapter 8. Insight, Art, and a Higher Awareness
Chapter 9. Space and Time in the Digital World
Chapter 10. The Meaning of Freedom in the Digital Age
Chapter 11. Consciousness in Cyberspace
Appendix
Bibliography
In Intelligence in the Digital Age, Lyn Lesch offers a thoughtful, and thought-provoking, meditation on how our digital devices are affecting our memory, attention, creativity, and freedom. — Susan Matt, Presidential Distinguished Professor of History, Weber State University and co-author of the book “Bored, Lonely, Angry, and Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter”
Intelligence in the Digital Age describes the profound changes that digital technologies are having on our basic capacities for attention, intelligence, creativity, and human relationship. Lyn Lesch reviews a wide range of research that documents the deleterious effects of the constant flow of fragmented information. This is a vitally important book for educators, psychologists, parents, and every informed citizen.
— David Edmund Moody, former director of the Oak Grove School and author of the book “An Uncommon Collaboration: David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti”