Information for Educators
Hello my fellow innovators in education!
Below are some of my favorite online resources.
Videos, Books, and other readings that have informed my practice.
I hope you find them inspiring and helpful.
I. Videos
These are all amazing videos under 20 minutes. Great for watching and sharing and discussing and inspiring and laughing.
1.) Ken Robinson's 3 TED talks: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html
2.) Dan Pink's Motivation TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
3.) Shawn Achors Happiness TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html
4.) Angela Duckworth about the power of Grit TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit.html
5.) Ramsey Musallam 3 rules to spark learning TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning.html
6.) Sugata Mitra - The Computer in the Wall experiment guy http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
6.) Benjamin Zander on Classical music and inspiration: http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.htm
7.) Will Richardson on education from TEDx NY ED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75vIE4vdk
8.) Susan Cain's great talk on Introverts from her book Quiet http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html
9.) Light in a bottle video. Short inspiring video of a simple solution to darkness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Fpsw_yYPg&feature=player_detailpage
10.) The powerful "Why I hate school but love education" Spoken word: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI
11.) Our CEO Larry Rosenstock's great videos on education: http://dp.hightechhigh.org/~ajgloag/newschools/
12.) Dr. David Helfand on education and creating QUEST University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZQe73IXZtU
II. Books
My Favorite books on Education in general (These are must reads in my opinion.)
1.) Most Likely to Succeed by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
2.) How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
3.) Now You See It by Cathy Davidson
Books related to Math Learning:
1.) Mathematical Mindsets by Jo Boaler
2.) Making Number Talks Matter - by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker
3.) Out of the Labyrinth by Bob Kaplan
4.) How to Teach Mathematics by Steven Krantz
Books on culture, decision making, happiness, and motivation
1.) The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
2.) Mindset by Carol Dweck
3.) To sell is Human by Dan Pink
4.) Decisive by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
5.) The Invisible Gorilla by Chabris and Simons
6.) Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
7.) The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
8.) Drive by Dan Pink
9.) Why we do what we do by Richard Deci
Books on Creativity, Change, and New Ideas
1.) Switch by Dan and Chip Heath
2.) Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson
3.) Out of our Minds by Ken Robinson
4.) The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Books on Willpower, Neuroscience, and our societies overestimation of the importance of "talent."
1.) The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
2.) The Willpower Instinct by Kelly Mcgonical
3.) Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
3.) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
4.) The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
5.) Nudge by Richard Thaler
6.) Intelligence and How to get it by Richard E. Nisbett
7.) Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman
8.) The Brain that changes itself by Norman Doige
Other Books I'd recommend that have all kinds of relations to learning and school:
Influencer By Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler
Invent To Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager
Rippling by Beverly Schwartz
A New Culture of Learning by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas
World Class Learners by Yong Zhao
Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele
Why students don’t like school by Daniel Willingham
How Learning Works by Susan Ambrose
Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielson
Teach like a Champion by Doug Lemov
The Tell Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
How we Decide by Johan Lehrer
Net Smart by Howard Rheingold
III. Other Readings and resources
"Who gets to graduate?" An outstanding article by Paul tough related to Identity and Growth Mindset http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?_r=0
"Schooling Beyond Measure" - a great article on the difficulty of assessment http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/09/19/04kohn_ep.h32.html
"Well Duh" - another Alfie Kohn article, this time on simple truths that should guide education but don't http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/duh.htm
"I used to think" a great article by our CEO Larry Rosenstock http://www.hightechhigh.org/unboxed/issue6/i_used_to_think/
"Seeing the future" A great in depth educational piece written in part by Rob Riorden http://www.bigpicture.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/990101-the-big-picture-company.pdf
"For the Poor the graduation gap is even wider than the enrollment gap" NY Times article - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/upshot/for-the-poor-the-graduation-gap-is-even-wider-than-the-enrollment-gap.html?_r=0
Edutopia - Website for great progressive learning. Very useful. http://www.edutopia.org/
The D-School Website with instructions on how to use their design protocol http://dschool.stanford.edu/
Yong Zhao's Website - Amazing educator and president of the University of Oregon Education Department - http://zhaolearning.com/
Cathy Davidson's Website - Another amazing educator and professor at Duke University - http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson
Ashoka - Incredible organization centered around changing the world through social entrepreneurship https://www.ashoka.org/
Kurzweil AI - great clearinghouse of futuristic technologies. Great for getting students excited about science http://www.kurzweilai.net/Judo Math - a great middle school math teaching tool developed by an HTH colleague http://www.judomath.com/judo_math_program.html
My 2013 students website to help educators interested in HTH and progressive education: http://ctfoe.weebly.com/index.html
Hello my fellow innovators in education!
Below are some of my favorite online resources.
Videos, Books, and other readings that have informed my practice.
I hope you find them inspiring and helpful.
I. Videos
These are all amazing videos under 20 minutes. Great for watching and sharing and discussing and inspiring and laughing.
1.) Ken Robinson's 3 TED talks: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html
2.) Dan Pink's Motivation TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
3.) Shawn Achors Happiness TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html
4.) Angela Duckworth about the power of Grit TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit.html
5.) Ramsey Musallam 3 rules to spark learning TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning.html
6.) Sugata Mitra - The Computer in the Wall experiment guy http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
6.) Benjamin Zander on Classical music and inspiration: http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.htm
7.) Will Richardson on education from TEDx NY ED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75vIE4vdk
8.) Susan Cain's great talk on Introverts from her book Quiet http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts.html
9.) Light in a bottle video. Short inspiring video of a simple solution to darkness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Fpsw_yYPg&feature=player_detailpage
10.) The powerful "Why I hate school but love education" Spoken word: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI
11.) Our CEO Larry Rosenstock's great videos on education: http://dp.hightechhigh.org/~ajgloag/newschools/
12.) Dr. David Helfand on education and creating QUEST University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZQe73IXZtU
II. Books
My Favorite books on Education in general (These are must reads in my opinion.)
1.) Most Likely to Succeed by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
2.) How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
3.) Now You See It by Cathy Davidson
Books related to Math Learning:
1.) Mathematical Mindsets by Jo Boaler
2.) Making Number Talks Matter - by Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker
3.) Out of the Labyrinth by Bob Kaplan
4.) How to Teach Mathematics by Steven Krantz
Books on culture, decision making, happiness, and motivation
1.) The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
2.) Mindset by Carol Dweck
3.) To sell is Human by Dan Pink
4.) Decisive by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
5.) The Invisible Gorilla by Chabris and Simons
6.) Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
7.) The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
8.) Drive by Dan Pink
9.) Why we do what we do by Richard Deci
Books on Creativity, Change, and New Ideas
1.) Switch by Dan and Chip Heath
2.) Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson
3.) Out of our Minds by Ken Robinson
4.) The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Books on Willpower, Neuroscience, and our societies overestimation of the importance of "talent."
1.) The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
2.) The Willpower Instinct by Kelly Mcgonical
3.) Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
3.) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
4.) The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
5.) Nudge by Richard Thaler
6.) Intelligence and How to get it by Richard E. Nisbett
7.) Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman
8.) The Brain that changes itself by Norman Doige
Other Books I'd recommend that have all kinds of relations to learning and school:
Influencer By Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler
Invent To Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager
Rippling by Beverly Schwartz
A New Culture of Learning by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas
World Class Learners by Yong Zhao
Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger
Quiet by Susan Cain
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele
Why students don’t like school by Daniel Willingham
How Learning Works by Susan Ambrose
Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielson
Teach like a Champion by Doug Lemov
The Tell Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
How we Decide by Johan Lehrer
Net Smart by Howard Rheingold
III. Other Readings and resources
"Who gets to graduate?" An outstanding article by Paul tough related to Identity and Growth Mindset http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?_r=0
"Schooling Beyond Measure" - a great article on the difficulty of assessment http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/09/19/04kohn_ep.h32.html
"Well Duh" - another Alfie Kohn article, this time on simple truths that should guide education but don't http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/duh.htm
"I used to think" a great article by our CEO Larry Rosenstock http://www.hightechhigh.org/unboxed/issue6/i_used_to_think/
"Seeing the future" A great in depth educational piece written in part by Rob Riorden http://www.bigpicture.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/990101-the-big-picture-company.pdf
"For the Poor the graduation gap is even wider than the enrollment gap" NY Times article - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/upshot/for-the-poor-the-graduation-gap-is-even-wider-than-the-enrollment-gap.html?_r=0
Edutopia - Website for great progressive learning. Very useful. http://www.edutopia.org/
The D-School Website with instructions on how to use their design protocol http://dschool.stanford.edu/
Yong Zhao's Website - Amazing educator and president of the University of Oregon Education Department - http://zhaolearning.com/
Cathy Davidson's Website - Another amazing educator and professor at Duke University - http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson
Ashoka - Incredible organization centered around changing the world through social entrepreneurship https://www.ashoka.org/
Kurzweil AI - great clearinghouse of futuristic technologies. Great for getting students excited about science http://www.kurzweilai.net/Judo Math - a great middle school math teaching tool developed by an HTH colleague http://www.judomath.com/judo_math_program.html
My 2013 students website to help educators interested in HTH and progressive education: http://ctfoe.weebly.com/index.html