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Resources

On this page you will find a bibliography as well as useful articles. If you have any resources to share, please add a comment at the right of the page.

Essential Sites for your PLN

PLN is the new buzz-acronym that stands for "Personal Learning Network". All the cool teachers have one!

Articles about PLNs

For more information about PLNs, read these articles:

• Wright, Cindy. "The Newbie's Guide To Building Your Personal Learning Network." Edudemic 02 Dec. 2010.
• Danner-Kuhn, Cindy. "Teachers need a PLN: Yes, Really you do!" Technology Bits Bytes & Nibbles 10 Oct. 2010.
• Guhlin, Miguel. "Build Your PLN" Moving at the Speed of Creativity 13 Jul. 2010.

NCS Library's PLN

Take a look at these sources, some great places to start a PLN:

• #edchat on Twitter - This Wiki is devoted to collecting all of the important conversations marked "#edchat" on Twitter. Every week, educators discuss various topics on Twitter.
• Classroom 2.0 - On this social network, educators from all over the world gather to form groups, ask for ideas in the forums and work with each other.
• Worthwhile Blogs - Here are some of our favorite blogs to keep track of the changing ed-tech field. For more great blogs, check out the 2010 Edublog Awards
  • Free Tech for Teachers
  • Hack Education
  • Langwitches Blog
  • Moving at the Speed of Creativity
  • Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Bibliography

This bibliography is broken up by general themes as organized by the Ed-Tech Home pages.

Books on Educational Technology

These books address recent innovations in the field of education, many focusing specifically on implementing technology as a tool for change. They are all available in the professional collection of the NCS Library.

• Chen, Milton. Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Inovation in Our Schools. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco: 2010.
• Collins, Allan and Halverson, Richard. Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America. Teachers College Press. New York: 2009.
• Jacobs, Heidi Hayes (ed). Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World. Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. 2010.

General Articles on Educational Technology

These articles address broad aspects of educational technology, including priorities and directions.

• "Top Ten in '10: ISTE's Education Technology Priorities for 2010" International Society for Technology in Education. 2010.
• "An Ed Tech Trio for 2011: ISTE's U.S. Education Technology Priorities" International Society for Technology in Education. 2011.
• Barseghian, Tina. "Three Trends That Will Shape the Future of Curriculum" KQED - Mind/Shift: How We Will Learn. Feb 3, 2011.
• Cuban, Larry. "Revisiting Technology Predictions for 2020." http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/ Dec. 2010.
• Edutopia Staff. "Year In Review: Edutopia's Staff Picks for 2010." Edutopia.com Dec. 2010.
• Keenan, Derek. "Choosing What to Teach about Technology" Developing Education. Jan 9, 2011.
• Reynolds, Rob. "Education and Technology Trends 2011" The Xplanation: Xplana.com. Jan, 2011.
• Riedel, Chris. "Powering Up Learning with Technology" The Journal: Transforming Education Through Technology. Feb 3, 2011.
• Roscorla, Tanya. "How to Teach with Tech Tools" Converge. Feb 9, 2010.

Pedagogy and Integration

• Fryer, Wesley. "We all can learn a great deal from a great kindergarten teacher." Moving at the Speed of Creativity. N.p., 10 Mar. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• McCrummen, Stephanie. "The (murky) writing on the wall in high-tech classrooms; Some question if gadgets truly aid achievement." The Washington Post 11 June 2010: A01. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Wilson, Cameron, et al. "Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K-12 Computer Science in the Digital Age. Computer Science Teachers Association. Association for Computing Machinery, n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.

Lifetime Learning

• Danner-Kuhn, Cyndi. "Teachers need a PLN: Yes Really you do!" Technology Bits Bytes & Nibbles. N.p., 10 Oct. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Johnson, Steve, and Steven Anderson. Wiki page. #Edchat. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• K12 Online Conference. K12 Online Conference 2010: Cultivating the Future. Ed. Wesley Fryer. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Sauers, Nick. "Model what you preach!" 1 to 1 Schools. N.p., 26 Oct. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.

Students Taking ownership of Learning

• Crawford, Amy. ."Middle school students sharing opinions on their blogs." Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 15 Nov. 2010: n. pag. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Flickinger, Brad. "Teaching Creativity Through Projects." School Technology Solutions. N.p., 8 July 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Junco, R., Heiberger, G. and Loken, E. , The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x
• Kaiser Family Foundation. .Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• McLeod, Scott. "If we were really serious about educational technology." Dangerously Irrelevant 22 Nov. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Thosand Oaks, California: Corwin Press, 2006. Print.
• Sauers, Nick. "The child-driven education." 1 to 1 Schools. N.p., 17 Nov. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Tolisano, Silvia Rosenthal. "Christopher Columbus Creates 21st Century Explorers." Langwitches Blog. N.p., 26 Oct. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• - - -. "We Did it... We Built It... Will They Come?" Langwitches Blog. N.p., 10 Oct. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.

Open Educational Resources

• OER Handbook Wikieducator. N.p., 3 Sep. 2008. Web.
• Open Courseware Consortium.
• Byrne, Richard. "Everything's Free, Now What?" Free Technology For Teachers. N.p., 25 Oct. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Ferlazzo, Larry. "The Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly - 2010." Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... N.p., 20 Oct. 2010. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Google Docs Community: For Teachers and Students. Weblog. Google Docs Community. Google, n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. .
• The "Living Book" Movement: Free Education For All. Weblog. KQED: Mind/Shift. Web. 3 Jan. 2011.

New Devices & Hardware

• Brown, John Seely. "Innovation and Technology: Interview from Wired Magazine." Wired. 2007. Web. 22 Nov. 2010.
• Garwood, Buzz. "Make the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard." Ed Tech: Focus on K-12.
• Johnson, L., Smith, R., Levine, A., and Haywood, K., (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium
• Steinberg, Jacques. "The Choice; More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them." The New York Times 16 Nov. 2010: 14. LexisNexis Academic. Web. 22 Nov. 2010