 | How Computer Games Help Children Learn by Shaffer D
Buy new: £8.65 / Used from: £4.45 worth looking at with a critical eye.
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 | Don't Bother Me Mom -- I'm Learning! by Marc Prensky
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £7.26 needs to be read critically - Prensky's arguments are interesting in places but present a very one sided view of learners as a single homogenous entity.
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 | Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.20 very interesting
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 | What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition by Gee J
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £5.95 James Paul Gee provides intersting insights into literacy, leraning and technology.
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 | New Literacies: Changing Knowledge in the Classroom by Colin Lankshear
Buy new: £18.81 / Used from: £8.00 Essential reading - Lankshear and Knobel critically raise a number of pertinent issues
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 | Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies) by Gunther Kress
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £17.05 An important book. Kress looks at literacy in the new media age and considers social and cultural issues.
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 | Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design by Gunther Kress
Buy new: £16.62 / Used from: £16.41 Recommended reading - use of visual is too often unexplored and used uncritically - this book helps us to begin to think differently.
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 | Pedagogy and Learning with ICT: Researching the Art of Innovation by Bridget Somekh
Buy new: £22.79 / Used from: £30.02 Recommended reading - Somekh discusses current pedagogical issues relating to ICT
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 | Effective Teaching with Internet Technologies: Pedagogy and Practice by Mr Alan Pritchard
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £14.98 Another perspective on the use of Internet in teaching and learning
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 | Role of ICT by Avril Loveless
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £15.45 Loveless looks at the changing role of ICT in education - read with a critical eye
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 | ICT, Pedagogy and the Curriculum: Subject to Change
Buy new: £30.39 / Used from: £24.99 Recommended reading - Loveless and Ellis provide good overvie wof some issues re. ICT in education - be mindful of date of publication and current changes
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 | Meaningful Learning with Technology by David H. Jonassen
Buy used from: £25.00 Jonassen takes a constructivist position in talking about use of technology in teaching and learning
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 | Modeling with Technology: Mindtools for Conceptual Change by David H. Jonassen
Buy new: £31.34 / Used from: £26.41 Recommended reading - a critical look at the use of technology to support thinking
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 | Learning to Solve Problems with Technology: A Constructivist Perspective by David H. Jonassen
Buy used from: £0.53 Looking at technology as a learning, rather than teaching, tool.
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 | Good Video Games + Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) by James Paul Gee
Buy used from: £21.99 Recommended reading - An excellent book to consider the learning potential of gaming
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 | Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom by L Cuban
Buy new: £14.20 / Used from: £9.24 A critical look at the use of technology in schools
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 | Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
Buy used from: £27.24 Recommended reading
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