Download Christian Education Curriculum for the Digital Generation: A by Jong Soo Park,Michael A. Kelly PDF

This e-book is ready exploring and offering a version of digital-based curriculum for Christian schooling compatible for the electronic methods of studying, speaking, and considering. Park discusses the restrictions of analog-based curricula, such a lot of present curricula, and must haves for digital-oriented ones. Then, he offers a brand new version of curriculum--curriculum as software program. Curriculum as software program is a curricular framework for embracing electronic tradition like open-flat community, service-centered administration, interactive conversation, and offline-online hybrid studying area. It comprises 4 spiral phases: research, layout, simulation, and repair. within the means of designing devices, 4R Movement--a new studying theory--is applied to motivate contemporary kids to build their very own wisdom after severely studying a variety of assets of knowledge. 4R-embeded classes are carried out within the 4 routine: mirrored image, reinterpretation, re-formation, and re-creation.

"Educating the electronic new release in multicultural society is a huge problem due to their targeted methods of considering, speaking, and studying. Christian educators and oldsters alike fight with an analogous factor in nurturing their scholars and children--however there are just a few books of Christian schooling curriculum on that factor. hence this e-book merits compliment and a spotlight. Jong Soo Park's learn is like priming water to attract new insights and creativity for instructing trendy teenagers for faith."
--Doil Kim, Professor of Christian schooling, Presbyterian college and Theological Seminary, Seoul, Korea

"Jong Soo writes for the church's educating ministry in modern day multicultural context. Calling for paradigm shifts in Christian schooling which are contextually applicable and scholar situated, this publication invitations us, for pedagogical purposes, to grab the interactive and engaged electronic age. a huge e-book for the church discovering its future."
--Don Saines, Farnham Maynard Senior Lecturer in Theology, Trinity collage Theological tuition, college of Divinity, Parkville, Australia

Jong Soo Park is an educator and minister operating on the Uniting Church in Australia. he's additionally the founder/director of Australian Centre for Migrant-church schooling (ACME). His fundamental trouble is to aid modern church buildings and households to steer a formal Christian schooling for today’s teens residing in a electronic and multicultural society. For this, he has researched a paradigm of digital-oriented curriculum and constructed Christian schooling assets in accordance with his version. He holds a PhD from the collage of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia.