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 Nineteen Ninety Four[1994]  

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Ten years on, was Orwell right?

Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime; All concepts that entered the language with the Publication of George Orwells "1984".

1994 has arrived and the explosion of the Internet in to the hands of the public promises to directly combat many of the frighteningly real predictions in this novel about totalitarianism and 'unthinking conformity'

Bill Coppinger

March 1994

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Harris, K. Teachers: Constructing the future (94.01)
A wonderful piece dealing with the future of schooling. Harris makes a case, in his own words, for teachers to be counted among the intellectual vanguard in social reconstruction. He calls for teachers to take a prominent and active role in constructing the future. more >>

Hargreaves, A. Changing teachers, Changing times (94.02)
"The rules of the world are changing.It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them." So begins Andy Hargreaves original and brilliant social analysis of the work of teachers. A must read. More >>

U.S.A. National Education Commission. Prisoners of Time: Report of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning.Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (94.03)
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de Bono, Edward. Parallel Thinking (94.04)

Western thinking has failed. Accept both sides of a contradiction and lay them down in parallel, then design forward from parallel possibilities. More >>

ACOT and Teacher PD (94.05)
"Evolution of a professional development project in which teachers learn not only about using technology in the classroom, but also about changing their instructional role — from dispenser of knowledge to facilitator in the construction of knowledge". more >>

Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (94.06)
Truly one of the most powerful books I have read.Perhaps the closest I have come to what I understand wisdom to be. More >>

McKenzie, Jamie Virtual Truth (94.07)

Information has trouble living up to its own press releases. We are flooded, overwhelmed and glutted.

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