Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingDiscipline Survival Guide for the Secondary Teacher – by Julia Thompson
August 25th, 2011Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
August 15th, 2011Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other(© 2011, Basic Books: New York, NY) is Sherry Turkle’s third book that explores our lives on the digital terrain. Sherry has conducted hundreds of interviews to gather her data. She explores how the technology that lets us do anything anywhere with anyone […]
Read entire post...Dr. Doug’s Key Book Summaries and Answers from The #140edu Conference in NYC
August 1st, 2011On August 3rd, I was on a panel moderated by Shelly Terrell at the prestigious #140edu conference at the 92nd Street YMCA in Manhattan. Click here for the video. Here are links to my book summaries that you should read if you want to better understand what’s wrong with most schools today. I have also […]
Read entire post...Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future and Locked Us In
July 29th, 2011Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future and Locked Us In by Brian X. Chen (© 2011, Da Capo Press: Cambridge, MA), is an insightful look at technology’s all-in-one revolution and its consequences. Will we give more control to individual companies and sacrifice privacy and freedom in the process? This is the first […]
Read entire post...Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children Revised
July 22nd, 2011Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman (©2009, Twelve Hachette Group: New York, NY) deals with many issues that concern educators and parents today. Included are praise, sleep, puberty, honesty, obesity, rebellion, bullying, and how parents should respond. This well research book is a must for every professional development library […]
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