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Required Reading for Cyn & Don's 12 Step-Slacker, "Top Five" Book Club!
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May 2004 Classes:
Required Texts for EDC-630: The Practicing Professional ( Dr. Melissa Anderson )
Required Text for EDC-667: School Leadership & Educational Technology ( Dr. Paul Sparks)
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Required Text for EDC-668: Managing Technology in School Settings ( Dr. Gary Stager )
Optional Text (choose one) for EDC-668: Managing Technology in School Settings ( Dr. Gary Stager )
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January 2004 Classes:
Required
Text for EDC-634:
Shaping learning Environments (
Dr. Gina Amenta-Shin)
The
Children's Machine: Re-thinking School in the Age of the Computer-Papert
Required
Text for EDC-634:
Shaping learning Environments (
Dr. Gina Amenta-Shin)
Life
on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet- Turkle
Required
Text for
EDC-634: Shaping learning Environments (
Dr. Gina Amenta-Shin)
Orality
and Literacy- Ong
Required
Text for EDC-639:
Mentoring & Team Leadership (
Dr. Sue Talley )
Mentoring:
How to Develop More Successful Behaviors- Shea
Required
Text for EDC-639:
Mentoring & Team Leadership (
Dr. Sue Talley )
Mentoring:
The Art of Giving and Receiving Wisdom -Huang
Required
Text for EDC-639:
Mentoring & Team Leadership (
Dr. Sue Talley )
The
Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships-
Zachary
"Optional"
Books for EDC-639 [one required]
See Syllabus
for recommendations. There are many from which to choose.
Required
Text for EDC-638B:
Action Research (
Dr. Paul Sparks)
The
Art of Possibility By Zander & Zander
Required Text for EDC-665:
Curriculum & Technology (
Dr. Mercedes Fisher)
Understanding
By Design-Wiggins & Mc Tighe
Required
Text for EDC-665:
Curriculum & Technology (
Dr. Mercedes Fisher)
Who
Learns What From Cases and How?- Lundeberg, Levin & Harrington
Required
Text for EDC-665:
Curriculum & Technology (
Dr. Mercedes Fisher)
Instructional
Design Theories and Model: New Paradigm of Instructional Design-
C. Reigeluth
"Student Choice"
Books for EDC-665 [one required]
Training and Development
Evaluating Training - the Four Levels by
Donald Kirkpatrick
Preparing Instructional Objectives: A
Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction
- Robert F. Mager
Making Instruction Work: Of Skillbloomers:
A Step-By-Step Guide to Designing and Developing Instruction That
Works- Robert F. Mager
Higher Ed Books
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook
for College Teachers-Tom Angelo and Patricia Cross
Contemporary Issues in Curriculum - Allan
C. Ornstein
K-12 Books
Learning in Overdrive: Designing Curriculum,
Instruction, and Assessment form Standard: A Manual for Teachers-
R. Mitchell
Standards for our Schools: How to Set
Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them- Tucker; Jossey
Bass ISDN 0787938947
All Fields
Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction
: A Conversation -Thomas M. Duffy, David H. Jonassen
Optional Electronics: 'Linda's' Wi-Fi Finder... Guaranteed to
be a popular item with our newsgroup..
Required Text for EDC-664: Technology and Learning ( Dr. Mercedes Fisher)
How
People Learn
Learning
and Forgetting
The Social
Life of Information
Optional Texts for EDC-664: Technology and Learning (Dr. Mercedes Fisher)
The Web Learning Fieldbook
Points of Viewing Children's Thinking
Required Text for EDC-633: Educating Today's Learner ( Dr. Linda Polin)
Situated
Learning- Lave & Wenger
Working Knowledge- Davenport & Prusak
Required Text for EDC-638: Collaborative Action Research ( Dr. Paul Sparks)
You
and Your Action Research Project-
McNiff Lomax & Whitehead
Doing
Action Research in your Organization-Coghlan
& Brannick
Optional Text for EDC-638: Collaborative Action Research (Dr. Paul Sparks)
Making
Conversation -
Larson
Perspectives
on Dialogue- Dixon
Required Text for EDC-641: Intro to Distributed Learning Environments
Learning
Circle Books Select one of the following...
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte
The Connected Family - Seymour Pappert
When Things Start to Think - Neil A. Gershenfeld
Optional books for project
work:
The Non-Designer's Web Book-Williams, Robin.
Flash 5 Bible with CD-ROM Robert Reinhardt Jon Warren Lentz. Paperback