Reading

Want a sense of who my influencers are? Who I’m reading and connecting with? What posts and pieces are making my brain hurt (in a good way?) Have fun digging through this periodically updated list of resources, and let me know what’s making your brain sizzle as well:

Suggested Books to Read:

• Beyond Measure by Vicki Ables and Grace Rubenstein. Important look at testing mania.
• Most Likely to Succeed by Tony Wagner. Great overview of the changing expectations for our kids.
• Building School 2.0 by Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase. 95 Theses to do school by.
• The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith. Get it. Read it. Apply it to your work.
• A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger Great read for educators and leaders sincere about rethininking schools, classrooms, and personal practice.
• Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything by Kio Stark. The power and potential of informal learning.
• It’s Complicated by danah boyd The best book I’ve read to understand teens and technology use. Must reading for educators.
• Open by David Price – Great overview of how the world is changing in both an education and work sense.
• Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager – The bible for tinkering, engineering and making in the classroom. Must read for all educators.
• Knowmad Society by John Moravec et. al. – Pushes the contextual boundaries for learning.
• Visible Learners by Maria Krechevsky – Reggio Emilia inspired learning for schools.
• Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology by Alan Collins and Richard Halverson – Still one of my favorite books on the contextual shifts.
• The Anti-Education Era by James Gee – Minces no words about the need for change.
• The Way of Mindful Education by Daniel Rechtschaff – A great introduction to mindfullness in the classroom for teachers and students
• Mindstorms by Seymour Papert – Still the most important book on the connection between technology and learning.

Blogs to Read:

• Audrey Watters– News and views on shifts in education
• Kathy Cassidy– Primary school teacher from Moose Jaw, SK
• The Answer Sheet– As good a blog as any to chronicle ed reform
• Stephen Downes– Another great curator of educational news and research
• The Internet of Things Blog– Tracks the increasing connectedness of the world.
• Net Family News– Great insights for parents from Anne Collier.
• Shelley Wright– Inquiry based classroom
• Karl Fisch– Longtime teacher-blogger
• DML Central– Thoughts on digital learning
• Hybrid Pedagogy– Rethinking teaching
• Chris Lehmann– Principal at SLA
• Precise Uncertainty– One ongoing story of transformative school change.

Twitter Accounts to Follow:

• Pam Moran – Superintendent of Albemarle (Va) School District
• Kathy Cassidy – First grade teacher from Moose Jaw, SK
• Edutopia – The George Lucas Education Foundation online magazine
• Silvia Tolisano – Elementary school teacher in Brazil
• Cathy Davidson – Duke professor
• Alec Couros – College professor
• Bill Fitzgerald – Ed programmer
• Jesse Stommel – Digital pedagogy professor
• Marina Gorbis – Institute for the Future

Must Reading/Other Links:

• Against School, a provocative essay on the history of education from Aaron Schwartz.
• Expeditionary Learning’s Center for Student Work – Great project/inquiry based examples by subject and grade level
• Unboxed – The bi-annual journal from High Tech High
• Technology is Not Neutral – by Gary Stager, one of the most accomplished thinkers around computers and learning
• Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education
• Edutopia Magazine
• Scarsdale High School’s Center for Innovation overview (pdf)
• Self-Directed Learning
• The Right to Learn (pdf)
• The End of Higher Education’s Golden Age
• The Future is About Learning, But What About Schooling? asks Harvard’s Richard Elmore.
• Evolving Learning Manifesto
• Castle View’s (CO) new Mosaic School. Blowing up the traditional model.
• Learner at the Center of a Networked World (pdf)
• Leading in Context (pdf)
• The Future of Education from the Hawken School – Provocative and visionary. Send it to your leaders.
• Dancing With Robots – The future of work for our kids.
• American Schools are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist – David Edwards from Harvard
• A Transformational Vision for Education in the US