Resources+and+References

=Resources=

Software / Websites
Google Sketchup @http://sketchup.google.com/product/newin8.html

A good article on new discoveries on how stress impacts on the brain. @http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teacher-burnout-neurology-judy-willis-md

A good article on the Golden Age of Arab Science. [] =References=

Monday
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1998). //The Tree of Knowledge//. Boston and London: Shambala. Lobman, C & Lundquist, M. (2007) Unscripted Learning: Improvisation for the K - 8 classroom

Tuesday
= = Diamond, Jared (1997) Guns, Germs and Steel Synopsis from Wikipedia - Full Article The book's title is a reference to the means by which farm-based societies conquered populations of other areas and maintained dominance, despite sometimes being vastly out-numbered – superior weapons provided immediate military superiority ( [|guns] ); Eurasian diseases weakened and reduced local populations, who had no immunity, making it easier to maintain control over them ( [|germs] ), and centralized government promoted nationalism and powerful military organizations ( [|steel] ). The book uses geography to show how Europeans developed such superior military technology, and how Europeans and Asians developed some immunity to diseases which spread among them, while [|epidemics] of them devastated the indigenous populations in the Americas after European contact. Eurasia was the beneficiary of favourable geographic, climatic and environmental characteristics, particularly after the last [|Ice Age] about 13,000-15,000 years ago.

Freire, Paulo (1970 ) Pedagogy of the Oppressed Synopsis from Wikipedia - Full Article proposes a [|pedagogy] with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society. It was first published in Portuguese in 1968, and was translated and published in English in 1970. [|[1]] The book is considered one of the foundational texts of [|critical pedagogy]. Dedicated to what is called "the oppressed" and based on his own experience helping Brazilian adults to read and write, Freire includes a detailed [|Marxist] [|class analysis] in his exploration of the relationship between what he calls "the colonizer" and "the colonized". In the book Freire calls traditional pedagogy the "banking model" because it treats the student as an empty vessel to be filled with knowledge, like a piggybank. However, he argues for pedagogy to treat the learner as a co-creator of knowledge.

Hodges, Henry (1970) Technology in the Ancient World

There are pleasant surprises in this brief but comprehensive survey of innovation in the old world. One learns that man's first interest in metallic copper may have been the result of his search for green pigment for eye shadow (malachite is a greenish copper ore). Or that the invention of the plow may have played the greatest role in population increase in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Full Review

Ong, Walter (1982 ) Orality and Literacy: Technologizing of the word Synopsis from Wikipedia - Full Article he attempts to identify the distinguishing characteristics of [|orality] : [|thought] and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of [|literacy] (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population. Ong drew heavily on the work of [|Eric A. Havelock], who suggested a fundamental shift in the form of thought coinciding with the transition from orality to literacy in [|Ancient Greece]. Ong describes [|writing] as a technology that must be laboriously learned, and which effects the first transformation of human thought from the world of sound to the world of sight. This transition has implications for [|structuralism], [|deconstruction] , speech-act and reader-response theory, the teaching of reading and writing skills to males and females, [|social studies] , [|biblical studies] , [|philosophy] , and [|cultural history] generally.

Wednesday
A very US-centric view of innovation =@http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/08/24/in-the-magazine/features/12-innovations-changed-world.html=

Thursday
Elementary and Middle School Math, Teaching Developmentally p 451

Gee, James, (2003) What Video Games Can Teach Us About Learning and Literacy Hofstadler, D (198?) Godel, Escher and Bach, the eternal golden braid

Computational ability

"Computation can be accomplished through invented procedures or with the aid of technology. Geometry, measurement, probability, statistics, and algebra can all be accessed with minimal computational proficiency. There is neither evidence nor any logical argument for the demands of computational proficiency as a prerequisite for meaningful mathematics. Furthermore computational curriculum of the past is no longer necessary for the daily lives of citizens once they leave school. What is critically important, however is the ability to reason and solve problems." Ability Grouping

"Plan pairs and groups so that children with mixed abilities work together."

Friday
Martinez, J.E. (2011) A Performatory Approach To Teaching, Learning and Technology, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, NE. Newman, F. and Holzman, L (1997) The End of Knowing, a new developmental way of learning Lobman, C (2007), Unscripted Learning, Improv Activities for K-8 classrooms Holzman, L. (2009) Vygotsky at work and play Holzman, L and Mendez, R (2008) Psychological Investigations

An entrepreneurial perspective on mistakes. []