Resources for keynote given by Dina Strasser, middle school English Teacher and award-winning blogger, during THV's Summer Institute, Place & The Digital Native: Using Technology & Social Media to Teach the Hudson Valley

1. “Would The Lorax or FDR Tweet?”: Thoughts on Technology and Place-Based Education<br />Teaching the Hudson Valley Summer Institute, July 2011<br />Books and Articles:<br />The Last Child in The Woods: Richard Louv (2008). <br />Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain: Maryanne Wolf (2008).<br />The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains: Nicholas Carr (2011).<br />Teaching the iGeneration: Bill Ferriter and Adam Gerry (2010).<br />How We Decide: Jonah Lehrer (2010).<br />“Five Things To Know About Technological Change”: Neil Postman (1998). http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/neil-postman--five-things.html<br />“Study Finds that Memory Works Differently in the Age of Google”: 2011. http://news.columbia.edu/research/2490<br />“Multi-taskers pay mental price, study shows”: 2009. http://149.156.114.3/~brus/stanford.pdf<br />Websites:<br />The ReaL Project: http://www.virtualfieldwork.org/<br />The Invisible Gorilla: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com<br />danah boyd: www.danah.org<br />Bill Ferriter’s blog: http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/<br />Contact Information:<br />Dina Strasser<br />dinaeliz@gmail.com or dstrasser2703@rhnet.org<br />http://theline.edublogs.org<br />c/o Roth Middle School<br />4000 East Henrietta Road<br />Rochester, NY 14467<br />