Books+mentioned+at+the+conference

[|Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations] by Clay Shirky A book about the online world ====The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do About It by [|Tony Wagner]==== Talks compellingly about 21st Century skills and what schools should look like

"The End of Solitude" by William Deresiewicz http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i21/21b00601.htm The lead essay in last week's Chronicle Review of Higher Education. "Young people today seem to have no desire for solitude, have never heard of it, can't imagine why it would be worth having. In fact, their use of technology — or to be fair, our use of technology — seems to involve a constant effort to stave off the possibility of solitude, a continuous attempt, as we sit alone at our computers, to maintain the imaginative presence of others. As long ago as 1952, Trilling wrote about "the modern fear of being cut off from the social group even for a moment." Now we have equipped ourselves with the means to prevent that fear from ever being realized. Which does not mean that we have put it to rest. Quite the contrary. Remember my student, who couldn't even write a paper by herself. The more we keep aloneness at bay, the less are we able to deal with it and the more terrifying it gets."

[|Disrupting Class] by Clay Christensen, Curtis Johnson, Michael Horn a book about disruptive innovation, and how online learning in the next 10 years will likely occupy 50% of classes taken in K-12. What do schools have to do to prepare for this inevitability.

[|Let My People Go Surfing] (the education of a reluctant businessman) by Yvon Chouinard a book by the founder of Patagonia which articulates how his company constantly changes, brings people towards a common mission, does the right thing, and creates a cooperative work culture. The main focus has to do with running an organization that people all work towards a common goal, in spite of great change and uncertainty in the world.

**[|Open Space Technology: A User's Guide] by Harrison Owen **    Written, by the inventor, this is a valuable guide to leading large group discussions that place responsibility on the participants to identify issues and problems and suggest actions plans and solutions.

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