Here’s a recent list of recommended reading for educators (beyond Dan Pink!):
1. Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains by LouAnne Johnson
2. Teaching With the Tools Kids Really Use: Learning With Web and Mobile Technologies by Susan Brooks-Young
3. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson
4. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Dr. Ken Robinson
5. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
6. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz
7. Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America’s Failing Public Schools edited by Karl Weber
8. Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner
9. Transforming Schools with Technology How Smart Use of Digital Tools Helps Achieve Six Key Education Goals by Andrew A. Zucker
10. The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game by Lee Sheldon
11. Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change by R. Barker Bausell
12. Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham
13. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need — and What We Can Do About It by Tony Wagner
14. The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller
15. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Curtis Johnson and Michael Horn
16. Teaching the iGeneration: 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills with Web 2.0 Tools by William M. Ferriter
17. Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education by David Perkins
18. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
19. Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools by Frank S. Kelly, Ted McCain and Ian Jukes
20. Why Do I Need a Teacher When I’ve got Google?: The Essential Guide to the Big Issues for Every 21st Century Teacher by Ian Gilbert
Read more with links here.
Stephen
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