Out of Context: A Course on Computer Systems That Adapt To, and Learn From, Context

Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat . New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. ISBN: 9780374292881.

Meier, Deborah, and George Wood. Many Children Left Behind . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004, Introduction, Preamble, and chapter 5. ISBN: 9780807004593.

Dewey, John. Experience and Education . New York, NY: Free Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780684838281.

Sizer, Theodore. Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984, Preface, Introduction, Prologue, Section II, Section IV, and Afterword. ISBN: 9780395344231.

———. The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780300104585.

Meier, Deborah, and George Wood. Many Children Left Behind . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004, chapters 4 and 6. ISBN: 9780807004593.

Sizer, Theodore. Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984, Section I and Section III. ISBN: 9780395344231.

Meier, Deborah. The Power of Their Ideas . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780807031117.

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. Respect . Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1999, Introduction and chapter 3. ISBN: 9780738200934.

Meier, Deborah. In Schools We Trust . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780807031513.

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, Introduction, chapters 1, 2, 4, 10, and Epilogue. ISBN: 9780465091270.

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. The Essential Conversation . New York, NY: Random House, 2003, Introduction, chapter 3, and Conclusion. ISBN: 9780375505270.

Duckworth, Eleanor Ruth. “ The Having of Wonderful Ideas” and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning . New York, NY: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996. ISBN: 9780807735138.

Project Zero and Reggio Children. Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners . Cambridge, MA: Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2001. ISBN: 9788887960259.

Goldman-Segall, Rikki. Points of Viewing Children’s Thinking: A Digital Ethnographers Journey . Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum, 1997. ISBN: 9780805824322.

Marshall, John. “Filming and Learning.” In The Cinema of John Marshall . Visual Anthropology 3. Edited by Jay Ruby. Philadelphia, PA: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993.

Additional Recommended Reading

Barnouw, Erik. Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780195033014.

Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures . New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780465097197.

Goldman-Segall, R. “Learning Constellations: A Multimedia Ethnographic Research Environment Using Video Technology to Explore Children’s Thinking.” PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.

Butler, Deirdre. “Self determined Teacher Learning in a Digital Context: Fundamental Change in Thinking and Practice.” PhD dissertation, Joint Faculty of Education, St Patrick’s College and Dublin City University, 2004.

First Half: The Many Faces of Community Connections

Smith, B., and E. Blankinship. “Justifying imagery: Multimedia support for learning through explanation.” IBM Systems Journal 39, no. 3-4 (2000): 749-767.

Sirianni, C., and L. Friedland. “Civic Innovation and American Politics.” In Civic Innovation in America . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520226371.

Price, V. “Problems of Public Opinion.” In Public Opinion . Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications, 1992. ISBN: 9780803940239.

Ananny, M., and C. Strohecker. “Forms and Forums for Developing Public Opinions.” International Journal of Knowledge and Learning . (Forthcoming)

Burd, L. “Technology-Supported, Youth-Led Social Change in Low-Income Communities.” Paper presented at annual meeting of Digital Nations, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2004.

Second Half: Tools for Creating Distributed Reflective Learning Communities

Agamanolis, S. “Designing Displays for Human Connectedness.” In Public and Situated Displays: Social and Interactional Aspects of Shared Display Technologies . Edited by Kenton O’Hara, Mark Perry, Elizabeth Churchill, and Daniel Russell. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2003. ISBN: 9781402016776.

First Half: Children as Scientists and Engineers

Second Half: Personal Fabrication

Gershenfeld, N. FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication . New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005. ISBN: 9780465027453.

Eisenberg, M. “Mindstuff: Educational Technology Beyond the Computer.” Convergence 9, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 29-53.

Atwell, Nancie. In the Middle . Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998. ISBN: 9780867093742.

Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children . New York, NY: New Press, 1996. ISBN: 9781565841802.

Basu, Anindita. “Full Contact Poetry.” MS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.

Shankar, Tara. “Speaking on the Record.” PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.

Kegan, Robert, and L. L. Lahey. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work . New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. ISBN: 9780787955359.

First Half: Computational Science and Mathematics: Logo, StarLogo, New Kind of Science

Papert, S. Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1982. ISBN: 9780465046294.

Resnick, M. “Beyond the Centralized Mindset.” Journal of the Learning Sciences 5, no. 1 (1996): 1-22.

Wolfram, S. The New Kind of Science . Champaign, IL: Wolfram Media, 2002. ISBN: 9781579550080.

Second Half: Handheld and Wearable Computers

Klopfer, E., et al. “Comparative analysis of Palm and wearable computers for Participatory Simulations.” Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 20, no. 5 (October 2004): 347-359.

———. “Using Palm Technology in Participatory Simulations of Complex Systems: A New Take on Ubiquitous and Accessible Mobile Computing.” Journal of Science Education and Technology 14, no. 3 (September 2005): 285-297.

Colella, V. “Participatory Simulations: Building Collaborative Understanding through Immersive Dynamic Modeling.” MS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.

Klopfer, E., and K. Squire. “Environmental Detectives - The Development of an Augmented Reality Platform for Environmental Simulations.” 2004.

———. “Augmented Reality Simulations on Handheld Computers.” Paper presented at the annual American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2003.

Gips, Jonathan, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland. “Mapping Human Networks.” PerCom . Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2006, pp. 159-168.

First Half: Art, Design and Technology

Second Half: Digital Audio and Computer Music

Drucker, Peter F. Managing the Non-Profit Organization . New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1990. ISBN: 9780060165079.

Frumkin, Peter. On Being Nonprofit . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780674007680.

Letts, Christine W., William P. Ryan, and Allen Grossman. High Performance Nonprofit Organizations . New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1998. ISBN: 9780471174578.

Simmel, George. “How is society possible?” In On Individuality and Social Forms .

Holland and Skinner. “Prestige and intimacy.” In Cultural models of language and thought. Edited by Holland and Quinn.

Hirschfeld, Lawrence. Race in the Making. Chap. 0 and 1.

Saville-Troike, Muriel. The Ethnography of Communication. Chap. 2 and 3.

Cherny, Lynn. Conversation and Community . Skim Chap. 4.

Thornton, Sarah. Club Cultures. Chap. 4.

McCracken, Grant. Culture and Consumption. Chap. 5.

Davis, Fred. Fashion. Culture and Identity. Chap. 1.

Zebrowitz. Reading Faces. Chap. 2 and 3.

Bruce and Young. In the Eye of the Beholder. Chap. 5.

Donath. Mediated Faces.

Jeffrey Rosen. The Unwanted Gaze . Prologue and Chap. 2.

LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories.

Levinson, Stephen C. “Deixis.” Chap. 2 in Pragmatics . Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Hutchins, Edwin. “Cognition In The Wild.” MIT Press, 1995, 164-173. (discussion of use of history and environment in planning and action).

Pollack, Martha E. “Plans as Complex Mental Attitudes.” Chap.5 in Intentions in Communication . Edited by Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack. MIT Press.

Rhodes, B. “Building a Contextually Aware Associative Memory.” Unpublished draft, 1998.

Elo, S. “PLUM: Contextualizing News for Communities through Augmentation”. MS Thesis .

Feiner, S., B. MacIntyre, T. Hollerer, and A. Webster. “A Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban Environment.” Proceedings of the First Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computing . Cambridge, MA, October 13-14, 1997, 74-81.

Hull, R., P. Neaves, and J. Bedford-Roberts. “Towards Situated Computing.” Proceedings of the First Annual International Symposium on Wearable Computing , Cambridge, MA, October 13-14, 1997, 74-81.

Brown, P. J., J. D. Bovey, and X. Chen. “Context-aware applications: from the laboratory to the marketplace.” IEEE Personal Communications , 4(5), October 1997.

Sawhney, Nitin, and Chris Schmandt. “Nomadic Radio: Scaleable and Contextual Notification for Wearable Audio Messaging (PostScript).” To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . Pittsburgh, May 15-20, 1999.

Healey, J., and R. W. Picard. “StartleCam: A Cybernetic Wearable Camera.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998, 42-49.