This is a continuation of the list of important documents posted here two weeks ago. These reside on the reference shelf on my wiki. Please share a favorite of yours as a comment here or on the wiki.
As We May Think. (1945) Vannevar Bush. “A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
Seven Principles of Learning, Institute for Research on Learning. “We are all natural lifelong learners. All of us, no exceptions. Learning is a natural part of being human. We all learn what enables us to participate in the communities of practice of which we wish to be a part.”
Engines for Education. Roger Schank and Chip Clearly. Dated but feisty hyperbook by endearing bad-boy Roger back when Andersen Consulting was laying $ millions on him.
Learning in the Digital Age by John Seeley Brown. “Learning is a remarkably social process. In truth, it occurs not as a response to teaching, but rather as a result of a social framework that fosters learning. To succeed in our struggle to build technology and new media to support learning, we must move far beyond the traditional view of teaching as delivery of information. Although information is a critical part of learning, it’s only one among many forces at work. It’s profoundly misleading and ineffective to separate information, theories, and principles from the activities and situations within which they are used. Knowledge is inextricably situated in the physical and social context of its acquisition and use.”
The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community by Calvin Andrus, CLO at the CIA, “The only way to meet the continuously unpredictable challenges ahead of us is to match them with continuously unpredictable changes of our own. We must transform the Intelligence Community into a community that dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting as the national security environment changes.”
Seeing Through the Net, I & II. Alan Watts explaining systems thinking to IBM in the early 70s.
A Simple Home (1906) Charles Keeler. “A movement toward a simpler, a truer, a more vital art expression, is now taking place in California. It is a movement which involves painters and poets, composers and sculptors, and only lacks coordination to give it a significant influence upon modern life. One of the first steps in this movement, it seems to me, should be to introduce more widely the thought of the simple home -to emphasize the gospel of the simple life, to scatter broadcast the faith in simple beauty, to make prevalent the conviction that we must live art before we can create it.” See also Bernard Maybeck: A Gothic Man in the Twentieth Century.
Beyond the Command Line. Neal Stephenson.
Timeline of Learning Organization Concepts, Senge et alia
William Carlos Williams recites This is Just to Say
Web 2.0 Framework, Ross Dawson & eLearning 2.0, Stephen Downes
Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson
Jane Hart’s eLearning Handbook
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Great lists – both parts – it would be very helpful to know why you selected these ones and what the contribution is.
Lisa,
Good point. The simple answer for now is that they were a heavy influence on me. (No one has contributed a new resource yet.)
Maybe I could write up a little piece for eLearn about some of these… and then request readers to submit links, names, and rationale for their favorite(s).