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political education 101 but i don't want to be bored edition?
i realized that i have big gaps in my political education/understanding of systems or histories or revolutionary/radical ideology. i prefer narrative to theory. what should i read/listen to/watch to get a better sense of political systems now and through history? [more inside]
Trends in YA and Middle Grade publishing
Some years ago I read an article about the history of the YA novel which posited that YA is a marketing term. (Example: The Outsiders probably would have been marketed as a YA novel today but the category didn’t exist then). I’m looking for historical information about YA and middle grade novels. [more inside]
Please help a Software Developer get up to speed on AI/ML/LLM
I'm a Software Engineer who's been working for a couple of decades. Not quite a greybeard, but greying. I've been watching the Artificial Intelligence (AI) craze unfold for a while and so far haven't dug much into it out of skepticism. Well, my company just decided to go big on this tech and while I'm not completely sold, I'm on board. How can I get up to speed? [more inside]
Good books about a long and difficult journey to competence and success
I'm looking for books/stories about the journey of a protagonist who is incompetent and unskilled, puts in a lot of work, makes a ton of mistakes, and slowly and painfully gains skill and competence. Snowflake details below.. [more inside]
Sacagawea for kids, but make it anti-colonial
Please recommend me kid-accessible books on Sacagawea that don't promote colonialism [more inside]
What are 10-15 books to read to make it seem like you went to college?
Met a girl who got out of an abusive relationship and is starting over. Had a kid early. Bad parents. The whole deal. Yet somehow she has the poise and personality of someone who's educated...even if she isn't. Is very self conscious of the fact. I said she can fake it if she just reads enough and retains it. So what should be on that reading list today?
Classroom Reading Tracking/Book Sharing Software
I'm doing a lot of extensive reading this year, and asking my students (near-native English speaking Japanese 7-10th graders with overseas or international school experience) to read several books this year. I would like to have some way to a) track books students are reading, and b) have a community page of some sort where students can share the books they've read, and their responses to them. [more inside]
Books like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Education of Little Tree
What other books are like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Education of Little Tree? I really liked the "life lessons" that these books demonstrate through showing rather than telling. As well as the vignettes into the psychology of various people. I feel like I am a better person after reading them. [more inside]
How to find common literary ground: Dostoevsky vs Rick Riordan
Without a bunch of unnecessary back story, I used to be an avid reader, read many of the classics, but these days I tend to only enjoy teen drama/sci fi with quick pacing like Hunger Games, the Magicians, Percy Jackson, etc. I always preferred more contemporary stuff as soon as I was far enough in college to specialize (e.g. Thomas Pynchon over Austen), but now I feel like my taste is not on par with my education, and mostly I don't care about that because I like what I like, but part of me does care, and I wonder about trying to get back to some more literary/learned media. I say "media" because ideally I'd like to expand my tastes for tv shows and movies also. [more inside]
Digital Books For Classroom Use
I work with special education students with significant cognitive disabilities. I want us to do book-reading activities together, and I would like to do digital books but not sure of the options. [more inside]
If you had five books to educate yourself from start to finish, which?
I'm interested in how Abraham Lincoln self-educated with specific regard to the books he chose to do so. The common story is he got most of his education from "Euclid, Shakespeare, and the King James Bible." I'm want to read books that have extremely high auto-didactive value, that have historically been influential and preferably can instruct in more than one area.
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Inspiring reading on Education & Learning
After a 15 year hiatus, it looks likely that I'll be taking up teaching again in 2019. In the interim, I'm looking for a broad spread of reading recs to help rekindle this flame. Textbooks, polemics, biography, fiction, websites... what are your most important sources of inspiration on the power of good teaching and being taught well? [more inside]
Edumacating My Child
I have an amazing 12-year-old son finishing grade 7 who loves to read YA dystopian literature like The Hunger Games and lots of sort of media tie-in books. He is capable of grappling with big ideas. Please help me come up with some really well-written, engaging books that use language beautifully, classic texts welcome if they are not sexist, that we can read together over the summer for our new Family Book Club. [more inside]
Seeking book recommendations on parenting gifted kids
I’m looking for books on how to parent gifted kids, ideally with a focus on kids who have some discrepancies in their abilities. [more inside]
help me help you help your kid
Me- English teacher - have been asked to give tips to parent on how to help their kid improve their reading. Help? [more inside]
What contemporary thinkers have most influenced you?
What contemporary thinkers have most influenced you and why? I want to familiarize myself with the contemporary intellectual landscape. Bonus for book, video, or podcast recommendations.
Civic Education Recommendations
I realized recently that there is a ton that I do not know about the workings of our government & country. This was most recently on display during the 2017 tax bill fiasco, attempting to figure out what the hell was going on, or what the next steps would be after the Senate approved something at 2am.
While I wish I had paid more attention in high school, those days are long gone. Does anyone have a recommendation for a textbook or even online course that would provide an in-depth understanding of how things work? [more inside]
Need a book about "The Labor Movement" in the United States
I've become more active in my local teachers association recently, and I find myself wanting to read up on the history of the labor movement in the United States. [more inside]
Children's books that encourage questioning everything
There's a new baby in our family, and I'm building a library so he'll have interesting things to read when he's 5, 10, 15...
What children's books pack a powerful intellectual punch for their size? I'm looking for ones that make the reader question everything (e.g. social norms, traditions, their identity, even consensual reality). Kind of like a Philip K Dick book but for children. Also good: anything which encourages precociousness (like Matilda).
A few that came to mind: 1) Eat Now, Pay Later. Short story I asked about here years ago: 2) The Sneeches, by Dr. Seuss 3) Matilda, Roald Dahl
Help me teach 'review writing' - best written critic
As a lead up / sideline to helping some folks learn the art of reviewing things (learning critical / positive / incisive / insightful / constructive / sharp writing), I want to have on hand some stellar examples of reviews of 'all the things' to show and talk about. Movies, music, TV, comics, books, websites, products, businesses, ideas, visual art - please share with me the best examples of well written reviews of any and everything that you know of. Reviews you share can take any form (videos / written / audio / webcomics / websites and beyond).
A visual catalogue of the human form?
My kids have become curious about bodies. Is there a book or a web site that presents the wide variety of the human body across shapes, sizes, ages, genders and colours, in all its bare glory and mundanity?
The history of the world is but the biography of great men. - Carlyle
When my mother was a child, she had a book that was 100 short biographies of "great men of history". I am wondering if such a book exists for the modern age. [more inside]
Social Justice Primer?
Are there some good primers for Social Justice out there? I don't want a dense academic treatise that's hard to read, or filled with a shitton of theory. Something lightweight, that goes over the history of social justice movements, reasons and causes for their existence, what they exist for, etc... [more inside]
Children's fantasy stories that taught pronunciation
Hi, I'm looking for a set of children's fantasy picturebooks from the 1960s or 1970s, that were designed for educational therapy, specifically to teach children how to correctly pronounce the "R", "Th" and "L". The ones I can remember were: [more inside]
Good books about computer science fundamentals for newcomers?
My friend and I are interested in recommendations for books that explain fundamentals of computer science for readers without any prior knowledge - preferably not just about how to write code, but about computer science in a larger sense, and illustrated is especially helpful. For example, around 2003 I read a slim library book with explanations of fundamental computer science topics (including binary, machine code, and how compilers work) with cheesy 90s graphics, but I don't remember the title. What was that book, and what are others like it? [more inside]
Books that a 2nd-grade boy would enjoy reading.
My wonderful partner has a 7-year-old, 2nd-grade son who is having a little trouble keeping up with his peers in the reading department. We're trying to give him some extra attention in that area so that he can catch up, and we'd like to try and foster in him a genuine interest in reading. What books (or comics, or anything) could we give him that he might like, and which would be appropriate for his reading level? [more inside]
Essential books for a school library
Recently on my booklog I got asked the following:
"Suppose you could recommend 100 books for a high school library (ages 14-18). What books would you want the librarian to buy, and why? (Fiction, non-fiction… whatever you think it important for teenagers to read.)"
What would y'all recommend? Note that this is not a hypothetical exercise, but would be a list of recommendations for an actual school library.
Introduction to Heuristics.
Searching for book recommendations. [more inside]
Help me educate myself in the philosophical side of environmentalism
I'm a grad student in conservation biology who has always had a strong interest in conservation issues. However, I feel like the technical side of my education is much stronger than the philosophical side, and I want to restore that balance. Who should I read, what resources should I look into, what organizations or publications are out there that will help me gain a deeper understanding of the philosophical, historical, and cultural components of environmentalism? [more inside]
What do you wish you'd read before you left college?
I'm helping to design a course for college juniors and seniors in the health sciences. What books (textbooks, popular non-fiction, or even novels), articles, essays, and websites would be most helpful for the students as they finish up their degrees? [more inside]
Best books for teaching yourself a new skill?
What are the absolute best books for teaching yourself a new and interesting skill starting from scratch? [more inside]
Where to find free non-literary book summaries?
This summer I have a lot of reading to do: some books about physics and math applied to sports, others about evidence-based sport conditioning, objectivism, ... stuff that built up because I didn't had to read it.
When I read books I like to have a top down view of the subject but most books' introduction fail to do so, either because it is too short and not enough to give a good overview of each chapter or because they not even try to summarise the contents of the books and on how to use the book. [more inside]
I was banned from collegeconfidential just for asking for some help?
Summer vacations are coming up and I am going to use some of my free time to learn physics and math, subjects that I love. In order to do that i asked collegeconfidential.com if anyone had "exclusive study materials" from their university which they could share. I mentioned that I would like to have acess to tests and exams from other universities and I could give some good materials collected by my colleagues of the physics and math course in exchange. [more inside]
Help me become a Cinema4D expert in a year
I have decided that in a year's time I would like to be a Cinema 4D expert-- or at least more of an expert than I am now. What are the best resources out there for me to make that happen? [more inside]
What is the best non-fiction book for kids in your field of study/work?
My kids (currently 6 and 9) have become voracious readers. We have a large and varied collection of excellent fiction for them, but the non-fiction collection is more haphazard. They love learning new facts as they read (the type of thing that makes them look up from the book and say, "Did you know...?"). I want to make sure that the collection of books gives them a good introduction to fields where I myself may not have enough knowledge to judge the quality/accuracy of the book. So what's the kid's book in your field that makes you say, "If only every kid got to read this book, people would understand [topic] better."? [more inside]
Young adult books about or starring characters from Laos?
[Book Filter] Does anyone have recommendations of books that are either about Laos, or starring characters that are Laotian? [more inside]
Can you recommend historically accurate children's books about (American) Thanksgiving?
Looking for equitable Thanksgiving curriculum materials [more inside]
Childrens' educational book series
I'm looking for recommendations for childrens' educational book series. It's for a 4-5 year old, but writing level is not important, as long as it has good pictures we can talk about (e.g. the DK Eyewitness series). Preferably, each volume is devoted to a single subject (no encyclopedias), and be available cheaply second-hand. Thanks! [more inside]
What are some good books on English Composition?
Here's my question. I am a returning non-traditional student, and would like to know of some really good books on English Composition, Language, Literature, and Research that would help me in my studies. Thanks.
Children's Literature: The Dark Side?
When children's books first became inexpensive enough for average parents to buy, were they looked down upon as a technology which limits a child's imagination? [more inside]
Philosophy books for children?
Does anyone know of any books for children around the age of 9 (a rather intelligent 9 year old mind you) that explores philosophical concepts, specifically metaphysics and epistemology. I gave him some old philosophy textbooks of mine, but they were a little too much for him I think.
Oh what a wonderful world...
Asking for a friend: Any recommendations on books about social or environmental justice for a high school junior? [more inside]
Your Great Books?
I am working on creating a writing centre at a local college here in England. I would like to add a Great Books component because it has a lot of appeal. What are your 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century selections that one could add to a Great Books list?
Books on technologies' effects on education?
Know of any books that look at the effects of technology on the delivery of education? [more inside]
Looking for titles to learn beginner world religions
I'm very interested in world religions. I have picked up a few titles but I find them extremely difficult I am hoping people here can recommend some starter titles. I am a masters degree educator. I know very little on this subject and I seem to get it twisted quickly. Please recommend titles to start reading to build upon. [more inside]
When should I let my child pick her own books if I disagree with them?
When should I let my child read Harry Potter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid?? [more inside]
Do ousted male lions lose their manes?
I was reading a book to my son (Face to face with Lions from National Geographic) and found a very interesting statement about male lions that our ousted from their Pride.
According to this book, a male lion averages only 3-4 years as a leader of a pride, before a younger lion comes in and kicks out the old guard. The book says that the old pride leader then tends to lose his mane, making him look more feminine, which helps him be able to stick around with his pride, without confusing anyone as to who the real leader is now. [more inside]
How do I find, collect, beg, borrow (but not steal) new books for a school library that is filled with 30 year old, out of date, books?
Boy brought home this ancient science book from the school library. I mean, so ancient that it was just flat out false. (It was about global warming, and had been written in the 80's and 90's. It was hopelessly out of date.)
When I talked to the librarian about it, she said that they had almost no books newer than 10 years old, and that more than half the collection was over 25 years old. It is one of the oldest library collection in North Texas schools. [more inside]
Reading Impasse
How do I get my 6-year-old daughter to read? [more inside]
Education Policy 101
I'd like to educate myself on the (intentionally) broad field of issues surrounding education policy. Where should I begin? I'd most appreciate suggestions for books to read, podcasts to listen to, blogs to follow, or anything else of that ilk.
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