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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger – Boring, but essential
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Thinking in Jazz : The Infinite Art of Improvisation by Paul Berliner – Learning on the bandstand
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Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music by Tricia Tunstall – Hang in through the first few fanboy chapters for one of the best books I’ve ever read about teaching and learning.
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The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton and Herbert Kohl – Social and political activism learned for generations in an informal learning environment (students include Rosa Parks)
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Comedian – You can learn more about learning from this film than almost any book.
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Extra credit:
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Emile: Or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Experience and Education by John Dewey
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To Understand is to Invent by Jean Piaget
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The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching by Herbert Kohl
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Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood by A.S. Neill
Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.