Professional Reading

Education & Technology Texts I've Read, People I've Been Following

2010-2011

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BOOKS

Title	Author
Teaching Digital Natives	Mark Prensky

ONLINE TEXTS

Title	Author	Focus of Article
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview	Clay Shirky	Technology	Reflections
Small Change: Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted	Malcolm Gladwell	Technology	Reflections
Putting Deep Into Practice	George Couros	Best Practice	Reflections
Crowdsourcing, Collaborative Learning or Cheating?	Michael Trucano	Best Practice	Reflections
When Students Are In Charge of Maintaining the Computers in Schools	Michael Trucano	Best Practice	Reflections
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy		Best Practice
There are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education	Kentaro Toyama	Best Practice	Reflections
Technologies for Learning vs. Learning about Technology	Claudia Urrea	Best Practice	Reflections
How We Use Technology in Education is More Important than Which Technology We Use	Cristobal Cobo	Best Practice	Reflections
Getting Tricky with Wikis		Wikis/Blogs
How to Get Kids Blogging in 5 Minutes		Wikis/Blogs
Webinar: New Ways of Telling Project Stories		Literacy
50 Ways to use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom		Wikis/Blogs
Passion-based Learning Takes Hold	Kim Zarzour	Best Practice	Reflections
Collaborative Problem Solving	Dr. Ross Greene	Best Practice
Looking to Boost Achievement? Try Some Non-fiction Writing	Chris L. Atkinson	Literacy	Reflections
Study: It's not teacher, but method that matters	Seth Borenstein	Best Practice	Reflections
It Better Be About the Technology	Doug Peterson	Best Practice	Reflections
"It's not about the tool" - A naive myth	Peter Skillen	Best Practice	Reflections
It's not just a tool	Dean Shareski	Best Practice	Reflections
Speaking up in class, silently, using social media	Trip Gabriel	Technology	Reflections

ED/TECH BLOGS

Site	Link
The Clever Sheep blog	http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/
The Principal of Change	http://georgecouros.ca
Trails Optional	http://www.trailsoptional.com/
Monica Bulger's Thoughts about Digital Literacy	http://monicabulger.com/
Michael Trucano	http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/blogs/michael-trucano
Educational Technology Debate	https://edutechdebate.org/
Daniel Pink	http://www.danpink.com/
50+ Web 2.0 ways to tell a story	http://50ways.wikispaces.com/
Wandering Academic	http://wanderingacademic.com/
Ideas and Thoughts blog (Dean Shareski)	http://ideasandthoughts.org/
Doug - off the record (Doug Peterson)	http://dougpete.wordpress.com
The Construction Zone (Peter Skillen)	http://theconstructionzone.wordpress.com
weblogg-ed (Will Richardson)	http://weblogg-ed.com/

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