Children

Let us discuss.

Education

• How Children Learn, by John Holt
• The Way It Spozed To Be, by Jonathan Kozol
• "Revealing the elephant: The use and misuse of computers in education", by Alan Kay. Sequence. Vol. 31 No. 4 (Jul./Aug.) p. 22-28, 1996. HUM298, also in Education Review, 31(4) and minnow:11
• The Children's Machine, by Seymour Papert
• Toward a Theory of Instruction, by Jerome Bruner
• A teacher's introduction to the Cuisonaire-Gattegno method of teaching arithmetic, by Caleb Gattegno
• The Absorbent Mind, by Maria Montessori and John Chattin-McNichols
• Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, by Howard Rheingold
• The Evolution of Cooperation, by Norman Axelrod

Humanity

• The Lucifer Effect, by Philip Zimbardo
• The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick M. Lencioni

Connecting with children

Getting children with XOs to volunteer for

• Localization,
• Free textbook creation,
• international communication,
• telling us their problems,
• Recording the local languages, cultures, and oral history,
• Writing for Wikipedia in their own and other languages

and a whole lot more.