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Readings for EDC 633: Educating Today's Learner (Talley)

Articles to Read for First Month  (all of these are purposely available online for download so that you don’t have to worry about getting books right away):

• Vrasidas,C.  Constructivism versus objectivism: Implications for interaction, course design and evaluation in distance education.   International Journal of Educational Telecommunications. URL:http://www.cait.org/vrasidas/continuum.pdf
• Chang, E. & Simpson, D. (1997). The circle of learning: individual and group processes. Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol.5, No. 7.  URL: http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v5n7/
• Bransford, J., Brown, A. & Cocking, R. (ed).  (2000).  How experts differ from novices. How people learn.  Washington, DC:  National Academy Press. URL: http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch2.html
• Roschelle, J.  (1997).  Learning in interactive environments:  Prior knowledge and new experience.    Published on The Exploratorium’s website. URL: http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/museumeducation/priorknowledge.html

Required Books:

• Wink, J. & Putney, L.  (2002).  A Vision of Vygotsky.  Boston:  Allyn and Bacon.
• Lave, J. & Wenger, E.  (1991).  Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Optional Book #1 – Theory into Practice (choose one of the following based on the area you are most interested in.)

• Cross, R. & Parker, A.  (2004). The hidden power of social networks. Boston:  Harvard Business School Press.
• Duffy, T. & Jonassen, D. (eds.) (1992). Constructivism and the technology of instruction.   Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Anderson, T. & Elloumi, F.  (2004).  Theory and Practice of Online Learning.  Available online (or it can be ordered from this website) http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book
• Langer, E.  (1997).  The power of mindful learning.  Cambridge, MA:  Perseus Publishing.
• Gee, J.P.  (2003).  What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Optional Book #2 -- Learning Theories

18/04) You will learn much more about this as we get into the first month of the term. You will determine your choice of a learning theorist to become more familiar with and choose a book or selection of writings by that theorist to help you become familiar with that theorist. The information about this will be discussed when we discuss the syllabus in the first month of the fall term

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