Suggested Readings
This page began as a simple list of books I have read pertaining to creativity, digital culture and teaching in higher education. I am developing it into an annotated bibliography.
Annotated Bibliography
Technology and Culture
Postman, N. (1992). Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology. New York, NY. Vintage Books.
Everything I’ve ever read by Neil Postman caused me to think in new ways about our assumptions about education, technology and culture. Technopoly is a critique about our tendency to give a free pass to all things that seem technical and scientific. Postman argues that it is inappropriate to attempt to quantify everything. One example he offers is the I.Q. Test, arguing that intelligence is multifaceted and every individual is unique. Every technology we use such as an IQ test has embedded biases that we rarely acknowledge or question. The book discusses the history of and technological approaches to dealing with the information glut that began with the introduction of the printing press and has exploded in the digital age.
The Postman point of view supplements ideas offered by others such as Kevin Kelly and Sherry Turkle, who say that technology always has positive and negative effects but we rarely consider the negative side of things.
Creativity and Curiosity
Grazer, B. (2015). A curious mind: The secret to a bigger life. New York, NY. Simon & Schuster. Amazon Page
Books I’ve Read
| A Curious Mind | Grazer, B. |
| A New Culture of Learning | Thomas, D. |
| Academically Adrift | Arum, R & Roksa, J. |
| Alone Together | Turkle, S. |
| Chasing the Monster Idea | Mumaw, S. |
| Cognitive Surplus | Shirky, C. |
| Consent of the Networked | MacKinnon, R. |
| For the Win | Werbach, K. |
| Guerrilla Social Media Marketing | Levinson, J.C. |
| Here Comes Everybody | Shirky, C. |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age | Carnegie, D. |
| Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood | Smith, C., et. al. |
| Net Smart | Rheingold, H. |
| Now You See It | Davidson, C.N. |
| Program or Be Programmed | Rushkoff, D. |
| Radical Openness | Tapscott, D & Williams, A. |
| Smarter Than You Think | Thompson, C. |
| The App Generation | Gardner, H |
| The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth | Robbins, A. |
| The Mobile Mind Shift | Schadler, T. |
| The Shallows | Carr, N. |
| The Storytelling Animal | Gottschall, J. |
| The Young and the Digital | Watkins, S. C. |
| United Breaks Guitars | Carroll, D. |
| UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed | Borba, M. |
| What Technology Wants | Kelly, K. |
| You Are Not So Smart | McRaney, D. |
| Your Creative Brain | Carson, S. |
another list of books, Mark Mansfield’s list. https://markmanson.net/best-books