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Bolter, J. (1991). Writing : The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bowers, C. A. (1988). The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing: Understanding the non-neutrality of Technology. Teachers College Press.
Geisert, P. & Futrell, M. (1995). Teachers, Computers and Curriculum . Allyn & Bacon.
Grabe, M & Grabe, C. (1996). Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning. Houghton Mifflin.
Harel. I & Papert, S. (Eds.) (1990). Constructionism. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Harel, I. (1991) Children Designers: Interdisciplinary Constructions for Learning and Knowing Mathematics in a Computer-Rich School. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. ISBN 0-89391-788-5
Illich, I. (1976). Tools for Conviviality. New York: Harper & Row.
Kafai & Resnick (1993) Constructionsim in Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Knapp, L. & Glenn, A. (1996). Restructuring Schools with Technology. Allyn & Bacon.
Maddux et al (1997). Educational Computing.New York: Allyn & Bacon.
Male, N. (1997). Technology for Inclusion. New York: Allyn & Bacon
Laurel, B. (Ed.) (1990). The Art of Human Interface Design. New York: Addison Wesley.
McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media. New York: McGraw Hill
Norman, D. A. (1988). The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books.
Papert, S. (1992). The Children's Machine: Rethinking Schools in the Age of the Computer. New York: Basic Books.

Papert, S. (1996). The connected family: Bridging the digital generation gap. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet.
Perelman, L. (1992). School is out. New York: Avon Books. 
Perkins, D. et al (Eds.) (1995). Software Goes to School: Teaching for Understanding with new technologies. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
Postman, N. (1992). Technopoly. The surrender of culture to technology. New York: Knopf.
RelLab (1994). RelLab. Experimenting with relativity. Version 2.0. User Manual
Solomon, C. (1986). Computer Environments for Children. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Taylor, R. (1980). The Computer in the School: Tutor, Tool, Tutee. New York: Teachers College Press.
Turkle, S. (1995). Identity in the age of the internet.  New York: Simon & Schuster.
Articles
Ackerman, E. (1991).From Decontextualized to Situated Knowledge:Revisiting Piaget’s Water-Level Experiment. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.) Constructionism. (p. 269 – 294).Norwood, New Jersey:Ablex Publishing.
Ackerman, E. (1996).Perspective-Taking and Object Construction:Two Keys to Learning.In Y. Kafai & M. Resnick (Eds.) Constructionism in Practice (p. 25 – 36).Mahwah: NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Anderson, J.R., Corbett, A., Koedinger, K. & Pelleetier, R. (1995). CognitiveTutors: Lessons Learned. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4, 2.
Bamberger, J. (1996). Turning Music Theory on its Ear: Do we hear what we see; Do we see what we say? International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 1(1), 33-55.
Bareiss, R. & Beckwith, R. (1993). Advise the President: A Hypermedia System for Teaching Contemporary American History. Presented at American Educational Research Association. Atlanta, GA.
Borovoy, R., McDonald, M., Martin, F., Resnick, M. (1996). Things that Blink:  Computationally Augmented Name Tags. IBM Systems Journal, 35(3).
Bruckman, A. Programming for Fun: MUDs as a context for collaborative learning. MIT Media Lab.
Bruckman, A. E. (2000). Situated Support for Learning: Storm’s Weekend with Rachael. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 9 (3), 329 – 372.
Collins, A. & Brown, J.S. (1988). The Computer as a Tool for Learning Through Reflection. In H. Mandl & A. Lesgold (Eds.) Learning Issues for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 1-18). New York: Springer Verlag.
Confrey, J. (1993). The role of technology in reconceptualizing functions and algebra. In J.R. Beceker & B.J. Pence (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Vol. 1, Pacific Grove, CA, October 17-20. San Jose, CA: San Jose State University, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science Education, p. 47-74.
diSessa, A. A., Abelson, H., & Ploger, D. (1991). An overview of Boxer. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 10(1), 3-15.
diSessa, A.A., Hammer, D., Sherin, B., & Kolpakowski, T. (1991). Inventing graphing: Meta-representational expertise in children. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 10(2), 117-160.
Duffy, T. & Jonassen, D. (1991). Constructivism: New implications for instructional technology?, Educational Technology, May 1991, 7-12. 
Edelson, D., Pea, R., Gomez, L. (1996). Constructivism in the collaboratory. In B. G. Wilson (Ed.), Constructivist learning environments: Case studies in instructional design. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Fischer, G., & Lemke, A. C. (1987). Construction kits and design environments: Steps toward human problem-domain communication. Human-Computer Interaction, 3, 179-222.
Hancock, C., Kaput, J. & Goldsmith, L. (1992). Authentic inquiry with data: Critical Barriers to classroom implementation, Educational Psychologist, 27 (3), 337-364.
Hancock, C. (1993).The Medium and the Curriculum: Reflections on Transparent Tools and Tacit Mathematics. In A. A. diSessa, C. Hoyles, R. Noss (Eds.) Computers and Exploratory Learning (p. 221 - 240). Springer.
Harvey, B. (1991). Symbolic Programming vs. the A.P. Curriculum. The Computing Teacher, vol. 18, no. 5 (Feb. 1991)
Horwitz, P. Contrasting styles in the design of science software. Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Horwitz, P., Neumann, E. & Schwartz, J. (1994). The Genscope Project, Connections, Spring 1994, 10-11.
Horwitz, P. (1989). ThinkerTools: Implications for science teaching. In J.D. Ellis (Ed.), 1988 AETS Yearbook: Information technology and Science Education.
Horwitz, P., Taylor, E. & Barowy, W. (1994). Teaching special relativity with a computer, Computers in Physics, 8 (1), 92-97.
Hoyles, C. (1991). Computer-based learning environments for Mathematics. In A. Bishop, S. Mellin-Olson, and J. Van Dormolen (Eds.), Mathematical Knowledge: Its growth Through Teaching. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 147-172.
Kahn, K.(2000). Generalizing from Examples. In Your Wish is My Command. (Edited by Henry Lieberman).
Kafai, Y. & Harel, I. (1991).Learning Through Design and Teaching:Exploring Social and Collaborative Aspects of Constructionism. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.) Constructionism. (p. 85 – 110).Norwood, New Jersey:Ablex Publishing.
Kafai, Y., Feldon, D., Fields, D. A., Giang, M., & Quintero, M. (2007). Life in the time of Whypox: A virtual epidemic as a community event. In C. Steinfield, B. Pentland, M. Ackerman, &. N Contractor (Eds.), Communities and Technologies 2007 (pp. 171-190). New York: Springer.
Kaput, J., Noss, R. & Hoyles, C. (2001). Developing New Notations for a Learnable Mathematics in the Computational Era.. http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/downloads/developingnotations.pdf.
Kay, A., & Goldberg, A. (1977). Personal dynamic media. IEEE Computer, 31-41.
Koedinger, K. R. & Anderson, J. R. (1993). Effective use of intelligent software in high school math classrooms. In Proceedings of the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, (pp. 241-248). Charlottesville, VA: AACE.
Koschmann, T. (1993). Using Technology to Assist in Realizing Effective Learning and Instruction: A Principled Approach to the Use of Computers in Collaborative Learning. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 3(3).
Kozma, R. B. (1991). Learning with media. Review of Educational Research, 61(2), 179-211.
Kuttner, R. The revival of a lost art, The Boston Globe.
Noss, R.& Hoyles, C. (1991). Logo and the Learning of Mathematics: Looking Back and Looking Forward. In Hoyles, C. & Noss, R. (Eds.) Learning Mathematics and Logo. London: MIT Press. p. 431-468.
Papert, S. (1990). A critique of technocentrism in thinking about the school of the future. Epistemology and Learning Group Memo No. 2. MIT Media Laboratory: Cambridge, MA.
Papert, S. (1993). Literacy and Letteracy in the media ages, Wired, May/June 1993.
Papert, S., and Solomon, C. (1971). Twenty Things to do with a Computer. Artificial Intelligence Memo 248, MIT AI Laboratory. Cambridge, MA.
Pea, R., Edelson. D. & Gomez, L.M. (1994). Distributed Collaborative Science Learning Using Scientific Visualization and Wideband telecommunications. Paper presented at the 160th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Reiser, B. (1989). Pedagogical Strategies for Human and Computer Tutoring. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April2.
Repenning, A. (1994). Programming substrates to create interactive learning environments, Interactive Learning Environments, 4 (1), 45-74.
Resnick, M. (1994). “Behavior Construction Kits”. Communications of the ACM.
Resnick, M., and Ocko, S. (1991). LEGO/Logo: Learning Through and About Design. In Constructionism (ed. by I. Harel and S. Papert). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.
Roschelle, J. (1994). Collaborative inquiry: Reflections on Dewey and learning technology. Computing Teacher, 21(8), 6-8.
Scardamalia, M. & Bereiter, C. (1991). Higher levels of agency for children in knowledge building: A challenge for the design of new knowledge media, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1 (1), 37-68.
Schank, R.C. & Jona, M.Y. (1991). Empowering the student: New perspectives on the design of teaching systems, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 1 (1), 7-35.
Schank, R. (1994). Goal-Based Scenarios: A Radical Look at Education. Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 4.
Schwartz, J. (1989). Intellectual Mirrors:  A Step in the Direction of Making Schools Knowledge-Making Places. Harvard Educational Review.
Sherin, B. (2001). A Comparison of Programming LAnguages and Algebraic Notation as Expressive Languages for Physics. International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 6(1), 1-61.
Soloway, E., Guzdial, M., & Hay, K. E. (1994). Learning Centered Design. Interactions, 1(2).
Thornton, R. (1993). Changing the Physics Teaching Laboratory: Using technology and new approaches to learning to create an experiential environment for learning physics concepts, Proceedings of the Europhysics Conference on the Role of Experiment in Physics Education. Ljubljana, Slovinia.
White, B., Horwitz, P. (1987). Thinker Tools: Enabling Children to Understand Physical Laws. Cambridge, MA: BBN Laboratories, Inc.
White, B. Y. and Frederiksen, J. R. (2000). Technological Tools and Instructional Approaches for Making Scientific Inquiry Accessible to All. Innovations in Science and Mathematics Education: Advanced Designs for Technologies of Learning. M. J. Jacobson and R. B. Kozma. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: 321-360.http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/downloads/developingnotations.pdfshapeimage_1_link_0

These are readings that you may find especially useful when thinking about and building your final project, or if you would just like to learn more about technological tools for thinking and learning beyond class.