Good Sources

Always check in here before bringing new technology into the classroom:

Neil Postman’s Website

Sources that represent different views about technology in the schools and that I highly recommend:

Bernays, E. L., & Miller, M. C. (2005). Propaganda. Ig Publications.

Ellul, J., Wilkinson, J., & Ellul, J. (2011). The technological society: A penetrating analysis of our technical civilization and of the effect of an increasingly standardized culture on the future of man ([Nachdruck der Ausgabe] New York, Knopf). Vintage books.

Ellul, Jacques. (n.d.). Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes.

Fridman, Lex. (n.d.). Lex Fridman Podcast. Lex Fridman. Retrieved November 6, 2023, from https://lexfridman.com/podcast/

Goodman, P. (1960). Growing up absurd: Problems of youth in the organized society. Random House.

Grossman, D. (2009). On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Revised edition). Back Bay Books.

Graeber, D. (2019). Bullshit jobs. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.

McLuhan, M. (1994). Understanding media: The extensions of man (1st MIT Press ed). MIT Press.

McLuhan, M., Gordon, W. T., Lamberti, E., & Scheffel-Dunand, D. (2011). The Gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man (1st ed). University of Toronto Press.

McLuhan, Marshall. (n.d.). The Official Site for the Estate of Marshall McLuhan. Retrieved November 6, 2023, from https://www.marshallmcluhan.com/

Papert, S. (1993). The children’s machine: Rethinking school in the age of the computer. BasicBooks.

Postman, N. (2006). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business (20th anniversary ed). Penguin Books.

Yudkowsky, Eliezer (Director). (2023, March 30). Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368.
Yudowsky: Dangers of AI