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<p> Jim Gee is one of the great thinkers of our time. His book, The Anti-Education Era, explains how we can all become smarter. His description of synchronized intelligence and why affinity spaces make for powerful learning should radically change how we think about education. --Allan Collins, author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology<p> Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant. --Marc Prensky, author of Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom

<p> Jim Gee is one of the great thinkers of our time. His book, The Anti-Education Era, explains how we can all become smarter. His description of synchronized intelligence and why affinity spaces make for powerful learning should radically change how we think about education. --Allan Collins, author of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology<p> Jim Gee is a great thinker. The book's concept of the future of education as collective, powerful, effective groups combining multiple brains enhanced by technology around the world-- what he calls affinity spaces, and capital M 'Minds'-- is both original and brilliant. --Marc Prensky, author of Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom <p> <p> This book is a wonderful meditation on what it means to be an educated adult in a 21st-century, why this goal is critical to our future as a species, and what technologies can and cannot do to help us achieve the goal of an educated citizenry. It is a powerful antidote to the prevailing belief that more technology, and more STEM courses will save our economy and our planet. --Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap <p>

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JAMES PAUL GEE has been featured in a variety of publications from Redbook, Child, Teacher, and USA Today to Education Week, the Chicago Tribune, and more. He is Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Described by The Chronicle of Higher Education as 'a serious scholar who is taking a lead in an emerging field,' he is the author of the bestselling What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.

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