On this page we will place all links to ebooks and online articles as well as libraries that can be used for (in) teaching and learning.

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Featured Books / articles / Reports:

2020 and beyond
This report explores predictions about developments in digital technologies over the next 13 years, examines the implications for education, sets out some future scenarios and suggests how we might harness the changes.
pdf version (pdf, 1MB)

Towards new learning networks
What should the educational landscape of the future look like? Where, and with whom, should learning happen? This report argues for a move towards the network logic of the learning community.

Social software and learning
This report explores the relationship between the emergence of social software and the personalisation of education, suggesting that there is a changing view of what education is for, with a need for young people to develop skills for the evolving global knowledge economy.

Personalisation and digital technologies
This report sets out some of the challenges and opportunities that might form the basis for dialogue about personalisation, and the role of digital resources in enabling and shaping this arena. It also includes a 'Learner’s Charter' for a personalised learning environment.

UK Children Go Online- report

UK Children Go Online

" This is a milestone study. Its size, its scope and its authorship give it a unique authority. It confirms some things that we already knew or suspected, and it provides many rich details which greatly expand our knowledge of children’s use of the internet. The gap between what children are actually doing and what their parents think they are doing is a lot larger than many people would have imagined. It is a gap we must try to close."  John Carr

http://personal.lse.ac.uk/bober/UKCGOfinalReport.pdf 

TEENS & ‘TWEENS ARE CREATING CONTENT & CONNECTING ONLINE FOR EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS

A new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC exploring the online behaviors of U.S. teens and ‘tweens shows that 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging, and visiting online communities such as Facebook,  MySpace, and Webkinz. Further, students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Nearly 60 percent of online students report discussing education-related topics such as college or college planning, learning outside of school, and careers. And 50 percent of online students say they talk specifically about schoolwork. "There is no doubt that these online teen hangouts are having a huge influence on how kids today are creatively thinking and behaving," said Anne L. Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association. "The challenge for school boards and educators is that they have to  keep pace with how students are using these tools in positive ways and consider how they might incorporate this technology into the school setting." Today, students report that they are spending almost as much time using social networking services and websites as they spend watching television. Among teens who use social networking sites, that amounts to about 9 hours a week online, compared to 10 hours a week watching television.

http://files.nsba.org/creatingandconnecting.pdf

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New students, new tools, new possibilities 
Creating digital learning environments

Today's digital generation has access to music, video, images, information, and other people on demand. They create MySpace personas, YouTube videoclips, personal blogs, and podcasts. They communicate with cell phones and instant messaging. They hang out online — often on social networking Websites. It is no wonder that this generation expects personalization from education too.

This e-book from Techlearning.com Download is a guide to Creating Digital Learning Environments that could get us thinking about what teaching and learning should look like in the future and show us how to begin today to create the environment — with personalized learning — that students need.

Also see the other ebooks at the techlearning site: (You just have to do a quick free register)

• The Why and How of Interactive Whiteboards (great flash resource)
• Guide to VoIP and Networking
• Keeping Students Safe Online
• Technology and the Future of Learning: Mobile Computing Makes the Difference in Preparing Students for the 21st Century
• Laptops & Learning: Wireless Classrooms for 21st Century Learning
• Why Wireless? Computing, Connections and Kids
• PC Management in the Classroom: Kids, Computers, and Control
• 1:1 Computing Guidebook
• The Art of Digital Storytelling
  

Other Recent finds:

• Activating the Desire to Learn (Bob Sullo)
• Connecting Character to Conduct: Helping Students Do the Right Things (2000)
  by Rita Stein, Roberta Richin, Richard Banyon, Francine Banyon and Marc Stein
• The Hero's Journey: How Educators Can Transform Schools and Improve Learning (1999)
  by John L. Brown and Cerylle A. Moffett
• Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning (2002)
  by David H. Rose, Anne Meyer, Nicole Strangman and Gabrielle Rappolt

• Resources for New Ways of Learning: A Manual for Developers of Learning Resources

• Facilitating Outcomes Based Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Trainers and FET College Lecturers

Must have's:

• Managing ICTs in South African Schools A Guide for School Principals