Recommended Books Discussed in Some Presentations

• After you read Dennis Littky's book, The Big Picture: Education is Everybody's Businesss, you MUST read Doc: The Story Of Dennis Littky And His Fight For A Better School. This recently republished book by Susan Kammeraad-Campbell may be the first education thriller ever published. Anyone who wants to understand anything about education should read these two books. Radical Reformer
  Dennis Littky drew on his 30 years of education innovation to create a new school model. Now he won't be satisfied until he replicates it throughout the country. (An extensive interview with Gary Stager)
  • A related column - Let the Sunshine In

• Will Richardson has written perhaps the best "how-to" book for computer-using educators since Dan Watt's Learning with Logo in the 1980s. Will's book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms is a must have for every educator or citizen interested in understanding Web 2.0!
  
  
• MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely by Larry Magid and Anne Collier takes the incredibly novel position of suggesting that you know what you're talking about before setting policy at home or in school. The book teaches adults how to use MySpace.com so that they may more rationally discuss social networking with children.
  
  
• Macarthur Genius and school principal, Deborah Meier's book In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization is an incredibly important read for all school leaders.

• Perhaps the two best books ever written about Learning:
  • The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith
  • What Do YOU Mean by Learning? by Seymour Sarason

By Bob Johnstone Foreword by Gary Stager

Real web inquiry, not that artificial webquest stuff

2007 Grammy Award Winner! Gary was the new media producer for this groundbreaking Grammy Award-winning music project

• Excited about the possibility of emailing a bicycle? You must read Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld.

• Learn about "micronations" and think of creative curricular connections. Lonely Planet has just published a tour book for those of you interested in traveling to some of the world's micronations. Unfortunately, Talossa is no longer accepting reservations. Read Lonely Planet Micronations.

• You can find many of my favorite education book recommendations organized here.