EDLD 5305 Reading List

Week 1

Please note: Only one text is required — select the text appropriate to your current situation:

K-12 educators:
Horn, M. B., & Staker, H. (2014). Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve schools. John Wiley & Sons.

Higher Education:
Christensen C. M., Horn M. B., Soares L., & L. Caldera. (2011). Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability to postsecondary education. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/report/2011/02/08/9034/disrupting- college/

Business focus:
Christensen, C. (2013). The innovator’s dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail. Harvard Business Review Press.

Supplementary Text for Higher Education:
Christensen C. M., & H. J. Eyring. (2011). The innovative university: changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Week 2

The list of readings for this module was set up to be purposely overwhelming because you need to be aware of just how much information is available and, more importantly, you need to learn to glean what is valuable and what is not. If you have been following educational technology literature for many years, then you will not be overwhelmed with all this reading, because you will have read each of the reports when they were published. If you are new to the discipline, then you have a bit of catching up to do.

Ideally, you do want to read all the material, but given the time constraints of this course and the fact that you all have lives, I suggest that you look to your class colleagues to share the load of reading and devise a plan to distribute the reading load and to at least look at the following in detail.

At minimum, read the most recent years of the Horizon Report, and then read the Executive summaries, Technologies to Watch, Critical Challenges and Significant Trends sections of the earlier reports. Look for patterns and also critically assess how accurate the earlier reports have been. Compare the predictions and claims of the Horizon Reports with that data in the Internet Trends Report (at minimum, use the report summary). Read the most recent ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, and review the Key Findings of the previous two studies to identify patterns that will point to disruptive innovations and compare to the Horizon and Meeker reports.

Week 3

Review the following resources that explain how ACU leveraged the disruptive power of the iPhone and iPad as a catalyst for the change in learning on their campus:

If you are considering a 1 to 1 initiative review the MTLI site and pay particular attention to:

If you are considering a 1 to 1 iPad initiative review the:

If you are considering a blended learning initiative review:

Regardless of your interest in mobile learning, 1 to 1, blended learning, or other technology-focused initiative it is always a good idea to keep the right perspective that it isn’t just about the technology it is about the learning. John November does a wonderful job reminding us of this in his article:

Why Schools Must Move Beyond One to One Computing

Similarly, AJ Juliani talks about starting with learning beliefs and learning principles even before talking about technology in his post:

Why We Went Multi-Device, Multi-Platform for Our 1:1 Initiative

Week 4

Digital Storytelling Cookbook – Must be downloaded from within the course BB

Dwayne’s DIY Video Creation Toolbox – if you are wondering what camera, mic, lighting, and editing software that you should use for your video this is the first place to start.

Week 5

Are You An Innovative Educator? Here’s How to Find Out