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__**Books**__ //The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google//, by [|Nicolas Carr] His upcoming book, entitled //The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains// seems to build on the same themes he started in his //Atlantic Monthly// article, "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?" In //The Big Switch//, he builds a fascinating case for the future of computing and information. Just as electricity quickly developed into a utility generated off-site and delivered into homes and factories at the beginning of the 20th century, information storage and software show signs of following the same route in this century. This gets you thinking about the ubiquitous role technology plays in our society and education. //The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science,// by [|Norman Doidge] //Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain,// by Maryanne Wolf //The Talent Code//, [|by Daniel Coyle] //Why Don't Students Like School//, by [|Daniel T. Willingham] //A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future,// by [|Daniel H. Pink] //Web Literacy for Educators//, by [|Alan November] //Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms//, by [|Will Richardson]

__**Sites**__ Shift Happens: A wiki with more background information, facts, and design notes on all the different "Did You Know?" versions. (Originated with Karl Fisch, The [|Fischbowl], and Scott McLeod, [|Dangerously Irrelevant])

__**Articles**__ CNN article - [|Kids On YouTube: How much is too much?] - on the ubiquitous nature of YouTube videos and early childhood moments. What influence does this have on childhood development when mundane moments are broadcast to millions? Best line of the article - what happens "in a few years when [the child in a YouTube video] enters the social Hades known as "middle school," the video will likely still be there?"

NPR Article/Podcast - [|Multitasking Brain Divides And Conquers, To A Point] - How much can we really do at one time? Well, we only have two frontal lobes...

NPR Commentary/Podcast - [|The Value of a Man-Made Mess, on the Internet] - Ever think the Internet is an unruly land of information? David Weinberger describes online research as a "map of links looks like it's been drawn by drunken spiders." Intrigued? Well, that is how our brain works...

Clearing the Confusion Between Skill and Strategy - Peter Afflerbach, P. David Pearson, Scott G. Paris, The Reading Teacher, Vol 61, Number 5, February 2008.

[|Digital Natives,Digital Natives] - Mark Prensky