ED 795B Seminar in Educational Technology

List of Approved Books

Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
Very good information about knowledge workers and the information age. This is one book that would benefit from the Friedman "Book, 2.0" approach, but there is still some great material, even 11 years later.

Thinking Again: Education After Postmodernism
Makes many of the central ideas of postmodern theory accessible by demonstrating their relevance to familiar aspects of the practice of education.
Item Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology
(4th Edition) by Anthony G. Picciano.This book provides educators with both the theoretical and the practical considerations for planning and implementing technology in schools.

Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology
(2nd Edition) by Robert Reiser, John V. Dempsey. Written by the leading figures in the field, this book clearly defines and describes the rapidly converging fields of instructional design, instructional technology, and performance technology. The book discusses the trends and issues that have affected the field in the past and present, and those trends and issues likely to affect it in the future. It includes writings from Walter Dick, Marcy Driscoll, Don Ely, Kent Gustafson, David Hawkridge, Mike Hannafin, John Keller, David Jonassen, David Merrill, Charlie Reigeluth, Rita Richey, Allison Rossett, Bob Reiser, and Jack Dempsey.
Item The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (along the lines of Friedman).

Globalization and Low Income Economies: Reforming Education, the Crisis of Vision
by Upali M. Sedere and Thomas C. Schmidt. The author critically examines bureaucracy, politics and international aid in the Low Income Economies with a view to using formal education as a tool of empowerment. This book discusses how globalization could fail to empower the poor in the low income economies. It is thought provoking that could help us to think the current education trend and reform in the context of economic globalization.

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
Thomas L. Friedman's reporter's curiosity and his ability to recognize the patterns behind the most complex global developments have made him one of the most entertaining and authoritative sources for information about the wider world we live in, both as the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times and as the author of landmark books like From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree. They also make him an endlessly fascinating conversation partner, and we've now had the chance to talk to him about The World Is Flat twice. Read our original interview with him following the publication of the first edition of The World Is Flat to learn why there's almost no one from Washington, D.C., listed in the index of a book about the global economy, and what his one-plank platform for president would be.