Selected Resources (updated regularly)

Books recommended by Constructing Modern Knowledge

Alfie Kohn resources

• Progressive Education: Why It’s Hard to Beat, But Also Hard to Find
• The Trouble with Rubrics
• Rethinking Homework
• Five Reasons to Stop Saying, "Good Job!"
• Fighting the Tests: A Practical Guide to Rescuing Our Schools
• Attrocious Advice from "Supernanny"
• Alfie Kohn's personal web site
• Books by Alfie Kohn

Peter Reynolds resources

• Six Essentials to Foster Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom
• Pete's personal web site
• Fablevision web site
• Animation-ish software
• Books by Peter Reynolds

Cynthia Solomon resources

• Twenty Things to Do with a Computer
• Logothings - Dr. Solomon's collection of archive of historic video from Logo research
• Books by Cynthia Solomon

Robert Tinker resources

• The Concord Consortium Vision
• The Crisis in Science Education (PowerPoint file)
• Information Technologies in Science and Mathematics Education
• Science for Kids: The Promise of Technology
• The Concord Consortium
• Books by Bob Tinker

Gary Stager resources

• Personal web site
• Publications by Gary
• Gary's presentations
• Robotics resources
• Podcasting resources

Melinda Kolk and David Wagner resources

• The Creative Educator magazine
• Tech4Learning

Sylvia Martinez resources

• The Generation YES blog
• Generation YES

John Stetson

• An example of an astronomy project published by one of John's students.
• John's astronomical photos online - page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, page 6, page 7

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