Book Review: How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique

How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique reveals the essence of how technologies-broadly defined as the orchestration of anything(s) to do anything a purpose-encourage, assist, and shape good teaching and learning as well as core competences for the mastery of learning, such as innovation, imagination, motivation, and dedication.This book targets a broad audience that includes (but is not limited to) teachers, curriculum developers, software developers, education researchers, and parents who support and educate their children's learning.Dron uses a preamble-Elephants in the Classroom-to demonstrate typical predicaments in education: misalignments between teaching methods and learning results, the imbalance of teaching styles and learning outcomes, personal tutoring outperforming traditional, long-established methods of education, and difficulties in the replication of successful interventions in education.The body of the book is divided into three sections in which Dron 1) adapts the definition of technology from Brian Arthur (2009) and, exploring other scholars' definitions, explains how people participate in technologies and illustrates how the way people enact technologies, whether hard or soft, allows technologies to be orchestrated for learning; 2) introduces the co-participation model and argues