Academic Technology Reads--must have!

Hello,

As you are putting together some interesting reading for the academic year, might I suggest a few books I read (am reading) over the summer and past spring? Can't say as I have read a fiction book in years, except Harry Potter books! The recent Harry Potter movie was great too!

--The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. Curtis Bonk
--Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, home, and School. John Medina
--iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. Gary Small
--Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation. Don Tapscott
--Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and more Miserable than ever before. Jean Twenge
--A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the World/Future. Daniel Pink
--Five Minds for the Future. Howard Gardner
--Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation will Change the way the World Learns. Clayton Christensen, Curtis Johnson and Michael Horn

The majority of these books are available for check-out through the Hennepin County Library System. I currently am working my way through Generation Me and Growing up Digital, courtesy of the library system. Some of them, I just had to buy too! Disrupting Class is amazing. I wanted to bury myself in that book! Generation Me is great and it really helped me understand students point of view and even my own views on why technology should be free.

Just some light reading for you! Enjoy!