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Thanks to my childhood as the son of a public librarian, I've always loved to read.  Here are just a few of my latest suggestions for adding some new perspectives to your thinking. Of course, I read them through the filter of an educator, so don't let the titles throw you.  I would enjoy engaging in a dialogue about any of the ideas.

Revolutionary Wealth -- Alvin and Heidi Toffler

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything -- Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

A Whole New Mind -- Daniel H. Pink

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More -- Chris Anderson

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations -- Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom

For some interesting shorter pieces, take a look at these:

"Smashing the Clock"

"The Hive" (from The Atlantic Monthly)

"School's Out" by Daniel Pink

 "How to go to MIT for Free" (from The Christian Science Monitor)

"On a Quest for English" (THE Journal)

Here are two of the more recent publications where you can access some of my ideas:

 The California Reader.  Vol 41, Number 1, Fall 2007.  "Technology and Literacy Intersect: An Interview with Tom Welch" by Thomas D. Wolsey pp. 53-62.

"When The Education World Goes Flat" published in Teachers of the Future, Schools of the Future.  National Evaluation Systems 2007 by Pearson Education.