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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

and a whole lot more.