Publications

Books - a complete listing

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity

Available through Corwin Press. Foreword by David Thornburg

Digital storytelling helps students explore content and develop literacy and creativity skills using their own language: new media. This book shows how to create effective stories regardless ofthe media you use, and explains why digital storytelling is a powerful tool to meet standards, infuse curriculum with meaningful activities and tap into your students' skills and talents. This book approaches storytelling and digital media production from a generalist perspective so that it can be used by teachers in any content area. The book assumes that the reader’s attitude toward the digital age classroom is a mixture of inspiration, intimidation and confusion. By the end of the book, readers will find life in the digital age classroom more manageable, productive and fun.

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Then What?

Everyone's Guide to Living, Learning and Having Fun in the Digital Age

"The new McLuhan has now arrived, in the person of Jason Ohler. Read THEN WHAT?, and see where we're headed."
Nebula Award Winner Robert Sawyer

A novel about how technology makes us crazy in an exciting kind of way. About living and learning in the Digital Age. About reinventing education. About telling stories, having fun, and staying human. Monty Python meets the Matrix meets Alvin Toffler on too much coffee.

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Taming the Beast

Choice and Control in the Electronic Jungle

"Of all the books appearing about media in the education of our youth, Jason Ohler's is, in my option, the best." Neil Postman

A book about how to see technology's impacts before they happen. About technology's eccentricities, behaviors, personalities. About technology as a liftestyle choice.

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Future Courses

A Compendium of Thought about Education, Technology and the Future

A collection of essays from some of the greatest minds of the technological age (Gardner, Gates, Rheingold, Postman, Kurzweil, Turkle) as well as fresh new voices from the worlds of art, storytelling, education and social criticism. About learning in the Digital Age and how schools will change. About what tomorrow's students and teachers will become.

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Classroom Spreadsheet Activities

Book and Diskette

By 1987, the tool software revolution was well underway in education. However, while word processing and data base use in education were already the topic of many articles and books, spreadsheets in education was still relatively unexplored territory. Few articles existed on the topic and there was no book about it. So, Jason and his students - all of whom were pre-service or practicing teachers - decided to write one. It was published by the Alaska Department of Education and sold out quickly at educational technology conferences. Many years later, the ideas and lesson plans it contains are still relevant and useful.

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