New Books on Teaching, HTML5

I can’t really provide reviews for these books, I haven’t read most of them yet (they are just lying in my 10 year old amazon saved items queue), but I thought I’d share the list for future reference:

Some new Books on Teaching, Learning, Education, Faculty Development

• Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning – Tony Bates, check out his blog if you haven’t already: 
  http://www.tonybates.ca
  
• Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - a book Tony Bates mentioned in this post: why the professional development model is broken.
• See also this free e-book/pdf: Effective Practice in a Digital Age
• A Guide to Faculty Development
• See also this recent online faculty development course on developing blended learning courses: 
  http://blended.online.ucf.edu/blendkit-course/
  
• And I’ve seen this faculty development book recommended as well: Teaching What You Don’t Know
• Academically Adrift – I probably don’t even need to mention this one, it’s gotten so much attention, but here is a recent discussion and summary of responses/criticisms of the book.
• The Formative Assessment Action Plan: Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning – formative assessment is one of the most effective things you can do to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning environments (see also work by Paul Black).
• See also this current discussion of challenges to formative assessment
• Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology – new edition (3rd) of this standard instructional design textbook
• Informed Design of Educational Technologies in Higher Education: Enhanced Learning and Teaching
• The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
• Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates
• Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies - see also this recent post on net gen skeptic with more on how the digital natives / digital immigrants distinction is dead (or at least dying).
• The Challenge of Rethinking History Education: On Practices, Theories, and Policy
• The National Academies Press (which recently made all their books available in pdf form for free, including the How People Learn book and Engineering in K-12 Education), recently released some new education books:
• Learning Science Through Computer Games and Simulations - See also this just published journal article: The Learning Effects of Computer Simulations in Science Education
• Successful K-12 STEM Education:Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
• A Framework for K-12 Science Education
• Single-Case Design (pdf) – how to do research with a single class, from the Department of Education What Works group

New Books on HTML5, Canvas, Javascript

Some of these aren’t out just yet

• Making Things Move in Javascript – that’s actually a link to some free tutorials – the book is not out yet
• HTML5 Canvas
• Core HTML5: Volume 1: Canvas
• Making Isometric Social Real-Time Games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript
• Learning HTML5 Game Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building Online Games Using Canvas, SVG, and WebGL
• HTML5 Cookbook
• Coredogs – some free online lessons/books on web development, drupal

New Books in Psychology, Technology, Design, Embodied Cognition

• Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science - see also this recent article The enactive approach: Theoretical sketches from cell to society
• The Primacy of Movement - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
• Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average and related books such as The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us and The Age of American Unreason
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood – by James Gleick (author of Chaos)
• Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis
• Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
• The Third Teacher – exploring ways design can transform teaching

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