Summer Reading — Carry the Meme
New York teacher and blogger, John D. Howell, who seems to be about my age (favorite music: Carlos Santana, Crosby Stills Nash, & The Grateful Dead) has started a list of suggested summer reading.
Anything but Succinct: Summer Reading Goals:
- Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind
- Alan November’s Empowering Students with Technology
- David Warlick’s Classroom Blogging
- Will Richardson’s Blogs, Wiki’s, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
- Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline
I would like to continue that list with some of my favorites over the last many months:
- The Search, by John Batelle
- Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott
- How Computer Games Help children Learn, by David Williamson Shaffer
- The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida
- Everything is Miscellaneous, by David Weinberger
In the professio-tainment category:
- Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
Pick this mime meme up. It’s tradition!
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Giroux, Jeremy. “Mind Reading - March 2007.” Jay GI’s Photostream. 3 Apr 2007. 25 May 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/jayswww/445116523/>.
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I think you mean meme! :)
Reply to jasonYep!
Reply to DaveSince propogating memes (as Professor Dawkins called them) do you have any female authors you can recommend with regard to technology? Since memes are like genes shouldn’t the genders be balanced?
Reply to Mechelle De CraeneDave:
I have read most of the books on the list… I am in the process right now with Daniel Pink’s book. An addition would be ‘Convergence Culture’ by Henry Jenkins. And to stretch way back to “Being Digital’ by Nicholas Negroponte.
Another thing to note is that TWIF 3.0 will be out this summer and will include material specific to education. I think Will mentioned it on his page last week. If anyone hasn’t read it… they should.
Kyle
Reply to Kyle BrumbaughHey Dave!
Just had to pop in to ask if you are a ‘deadhead’ as in Grateful deadhead… that would be something we would have in common! Also, thanks for sending me your book, it is on MY list of summer reading.
:>) Karen
Reply to Karen KliegmanHi Dave,
Reply to Paul OBriantGood list. I read both Snow Crash and Diamond Age several years ago. (I also recommend his book Cryptonomicon.)
I haven’t found anything in this genre nearly as good since then. Any further recommendations?