Books Available to Borrow

At the ISTE convention in June, I bought several books that might be useful and interesting for teachers in the district.  I'll list them here with a short description; if you're interested in borrowing any of them, let me know.

• Flip Your Classroom, Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams
• This is a short but powerful book describing why and how to flip your classroom instruction.  They describe how technology is making mastery learning practical and how they have developed "flipped-mastery" classrooms.  This is all about making classrooms truly student-centered.  It's a quick read, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
• From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom, Marc Prensky
• This is a collection of essays that are overviews of learners in the current generation.  It's not a practical book about lesson plans, but instead a book questioning our current curriculum and instructional methods.  Students have powerful computers in their pockets that they use all the time; why do we ask them to "power down" and "dumb down" when they enter the classroom?  Why aren't we taking advantage of the resources they have?
• Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators, Liz Kolb
• This book is very practical, with specific lesson plans, websites, and tutorials for different subject areas.  It also includes a section on practicalities of using cell phones in classrooms, like permission slips, alternatives for students who don't have them, appropriate use and safety contracts, etc.
• Differentiating Instruction with Technology in Middle School Classrooms, Grace E. Smith and Stephanie Throne
• Another practical book, with an overview of Web 2.0 technologies, descriptions of adolescent learning theory, and then chapters for each subject area with specific lesson plan, websites, and other resources to use in differentiating instruction.