Here is the result of how I crowdsourced a request from Dr. Mary Ann Fitzgerald, my mentor and colleague, at the University of Georgia: Here's a question that's perfect for you. I'm teaching an Issues class this summer as an elective (M.Ed level). In the past, I've come up with a laundry list of topics and we've explored those. Another approach might be to choose a single book -- a paradigm shifter sort of book that relates to SLM. Not a textbook. Something like: 1. information + social + technology + education, multiplied by radical. 2. Something we can all read and have some rich discussions about. 3. Preferably available in e-book format :-). 4. TED talkish. What title would you nominate? Something published quite recently.

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“What’s Right With http://goo.gl/QU9iz Elisabeth Abarbarnel thinking there is a lot school librarians can take from
This Picture?: the YOU Media model being introduced at public
Chicago’s YOUmedia libraries
reinvents the public
library”, Karen
Springen (School
Library Journal)
The World is Open, http://goo.gl/oAXvz Heather Braum Available as a Kindle and Nook eBooks
Curtis J. Bonk
Alone Together: Why http://goo.gl/1KvzQ Laura Deisley Extremely provocative with a challenge to pay close
We Expect More also see http://www.mit.edu/~sturkle/ attention to our interactions with technology lest we
from Technology and lose the very essence of being human
Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle Kristin Fontichiaro
Poke the Box, Seth http://goo.gl/ZAsZF Ernie Cox While it won't provide a semester's worth the
Godin discussion it could definitely ignite some conversation
about how things get done in organizations (in our case
schools). Very affordable kindle version.
The Flat World and http://goo.gl/J6Qt7 Ernie Cox From Ernie Cox: “Much larger and more specifically
Education, Linda Carolyn Foote about schools is Darling-Hammond's "The Flat World
Darling-Hammond and Education". This book could really prepare future
SLM to be building leaders on an array of education
issues.”
The Shallows, http://goo.gl/0xhIT Doug Johnson From Dawn Nelson: “Those attending the AASL
Nicholas Carr Dawn Nelson Conference in October could do double duty with ‘The
Laura Deisley Shallows’ as it is the title chosen for One Book, One
Wendy Stephens Conference and Mr. Carr is a general session speaker.”
Michelle Luhtala http://www.aasl11.org/events/onebookoneconference/
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Born Digital: http://goo.gl/wromL Jennifer LaGarde From Jennifer LaGarde: “It explores a variety of
Understanding the Carolyn Foote discussion worthy issues including content
First Generation of piracy/creation/evaluation, cyber bullying and online
Digital Natives , John activism/philanthropy – all framed within the context of
Palfrey and Urs how today’s generation of “digital natives” is shaping
Gasser. the world – as opposed to being shaped by it. It would
be an interesting companion read to Shallows- which
Doug and Laura suggested.”
The Global http://goo.gl/wtaYI Kristin Fontichiaro From Kristin: Attacks the sacred cow that even upper-
Achievement Gap: Heather Hershey SES schools, where kids score well, often lack
Why Even Our Best Michelle Luhtala conceptual understanding.
Schools Don't Teach Michelle Fromme
the New Survival
Skills Our Children
Need--and What We
Can Do , Tony
Wagner
You Are Not a http://goo.gl/5uw7B Kristin Fontichiaro The essay http://goo.gl/svpn is a more readable version
Gadget, Jaron Lanier of some of the ideas he articulates in the book, which I
found hard to traverse: gets at many thought-provoking
concepts, including the idea that merely quoting others
without adding one's own perspective adds little.
Common As Air: http://goo.gl/cInqh Carolyn Foote notions of intellectual property (this one may be too
Revolution, Art and limited in scope)
Ownership by Lewis
Hyde--
Late Age of Print by http://goo.gl/V0asf Carolyn Foote interesting exploration of print/digital technologies
Ted Striphas
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Here Comes http://goo.gl/Pm0SV Elisabeth Abarbarnel I enjoyed it - but it isn't "quite recent."
Everybody, Clay
Shirky
Hanging out, http://goo.gl/s9LBG Elisabeth Abarbarnel From Ernie Cox: This document shows what
Messing Around, transliteracy is for youth and could really provide great
and Geeking Out Ernie Cox conversation about school libraries.
Linchpin: Are You http://goo.gl/kmalw Buffy Hamilton
Indispensable?, Seth Sara Kelly Johns
Godin Sophie Brookover
Confronting the http://goo.gl/bXiBJ Buffy Hamilton
Challenges of
Participatory
Culture: Media
Education for the
21st Century, Henry
Jenkins
Librarians as http://goo.gl/WoNuQ Buffy Hamilton
Learning Specialists: Heather Hershey
Meeting the
Learning Imperative
for the 21st Century
Allison Zmuda and
Violet Harada
Drive: The http://goo.gl/HdgUS Susan Grigsby
Surprising Truth Sara Kelly Johns
About What
Motivates Us, Daniel
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Pink
A Whole New Mind: http://goo.gl/sUytY Susan Grigsby From Susan: I especially loved the implications to
A Whole New Mind: Sara Kelly Johns library service in his writing which, I believe, supports
Why Right-Brainers the Learning Commons line of thinking.
Will Rule the Future,
Daniel Pink
Guided Inquiry: http://goo.gl/z8z0M Heather Hershey
Learning in the 21st
Century, Carol
Kuhlthau, Leslie
Maniotes, Ann
Caspari
Readicide: How http://goo.gl/sFOdX Heather Hershey
Schools Are Killing
Reading and What
You Can Do About It,
Kelly Gallagher
Assessing for http://goo.gl/PzaMq Heather Hershey
Learning: Librarians Buffy Hamilton
and Teachers as
Partners, Revised
and Expanded, Violet
Harada and Joan
Yoshina
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Disrupting Class : http://goo.gl/zUFFP Michelle Luhtala
How Disruptive
Innovation Will
Change the Way the
World Learns, Curtis
Johnson, Michael
Horn, Clayton
Christensen
NurtureShock: New http://goo.gl/WOUzP Sophie Brookover It’s less on the tech side, more on the radical shifting of
Thinking About how we think of children & adolescents and their
Children, Po developmental needs – huge implications for schools &
Bronson, Ashley learning there.
Merryman
Digital Community, http://goo.gl/NtQJu Sara Kelley-Mudie I’m currently reading Digital Community, Digital Citizen
Digital Citizen, Jason by Jason Ohler and finding myself making far more
Ohler notes in the margins than usual and wanting to have
conversations with people about some of these ideas.
The Information: A http://goo.gl/1X0Dp Wendy Stephens
History, A Theory, A
Flood, James Gleick
Proust and the http://goo.gl/qvLGz Wendy Stephens
Squid: The Story and
Science of the
Reading Brain,
Maryanne Wolf
Understanding the http://goo.gl/7m3kF Michelle Luhtala
Digital Generation:
Teaching and
Learning in the New
Digital Landscape
(The 21st Century
Fluency Series), Ian
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Jukes, Ted McCain,
Lee Crockett, Marc
Prensky (foreward)
2011 Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/publications/2011- Michelle Luhtala
horizon-report or http://goo.gl/BaLqP ; the Buffy Hamilton
K12 report is due in May 2011—please see
the awesome wiki at
http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/
Assessing New http://goo.gl/XiNWO Buffy Hamilton
Literacies (New
Literacies and Digital
Epistemologies)
21st-Century http://goo.gl/07v3Y Buffy Hamilton
Learning in School
Libraries, Ed. Kristin
Fontichiaro
Switch: How to http://goo.gl/HN2r0 Buffy Hamilton
Change Things When
Change Is Hard, Chip
and Dan Heath
Literacy and http://goo.gl/njqSN Buffy Hamilton
Learning: Reflections
on Writing, Reading,
and Society, Deborah
Brandt
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Socialnomics: How http://goo.gl/LWvDp Heather Braum Heather: I'd recommend it generally speaking, but not
Social Media Carolyn Foote for a graduate level class; maybe an undergraduate ed-
Transforms the Way tech class. His promotional video
We Live and Do (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng)
Business, Erik generally captures the essence of the book in a few
Quamlan minutes.
Hamlet's BlackBerry: http://goo.gl/0b4S7 Michelle Fromme
A Practical
Philosophy for
Building a Good Life
in the Digital Age,
William Powers
What’s the Big http://goo.gl/O62p3 Buffy Hamilton
Idea?, Jim Burke
The Atlas of New http://goo.gl/keV1O Buffy Hamilton
Librarianship, R.
David Lankes
Reflective Teaching, http://goo.gl/CHFUi Buffy Hamilton
Effective Learning:
Instructional Literacy
for Library Educators,
Char Booth
“Attention, and http://goo.gl/GIIC Buffy Hamilton
Other 21st-Century
Social Media
Literacies”, Howard
Rheingold
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The Future of http://goo.gl/uR3p6 Buffy Hamilton
Learning Institutions
in a Digital Age,
Cathy Davidson and
David Theo Goldberg
The Death and Life http://goo.gl/wuyn8 Mary Ann Fitzgerald
of the Great
American School
System: How Testing
and Choice Are
Undermining
Education, Diane
Ravitch
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