February 16, 2006
Books
This semester I am trying to cram in all of the following:
Eisner, E. W. (2002). The educational imagination: On the design and evaluation of school programs. 3rd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
Read this last semester and refreshed during January. This book makes a lot of sense out of what curriculum is and isn't. Particularly liked the case study on slackers (guess I can relate..)
Ormrod, J. E. (2004). Human learning. 4th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
Excellent synopsis of everything I missed or couldn't remember from Psych 101, specifically about the bigger learning theories.
Oliva, P. F. (2005). Developing the curriculum, 6th Edition. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
Not read yet.
Gladwell, Malcolm. (2002). How little things can make a big difference.
Pretty cool idea that seems to explain in some ways how learning takes place, but doesn't seem that much different than chaos theory..
Kohn, Alfie. (1995). Punished by rewards: The trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A's, praise, and other bribes.
Like the concept, but haven't read this yet.
Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman, Randolph E. Gunter, Glenda A. Gunter. (2003). Integrating Technology in the Classroom. 
Gardner, Howard (2004). Changing Minds.
Got a free copy of this at the conference. Good stuff.
Schirripa, Steven. The Goomba's Book of Love.
Kerry bought me this. I'm not enough like Tony Soprano? OK.