Philip McRae, Ph.D.
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"There are no strangers here;
only friends you haven't yet met.”

~William Butler Yeats

Things that I am reading & thinking about at the moment...

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari

​The Mediatrician's Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen-Saturated World 
by Michael Rich

The Calm Before the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency
by Robyne Hanley-Dafoe

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
by Niall Ferguson

The Promised Land
by Barack Obama

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power 
by Shoshana Zuboff

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook
 by Niall Ferguson

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by Nicholas A. Christakis

The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
by Manuel Lima

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
by Cass Sunstein

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by Douglas Rushkoff

This Will Make You Smarter
Edited by John Brockman

Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School
by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

Finnish Lesson 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland
by Pasi Sahlberg

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?
Edited by John Brockman

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle

Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?
by Henry A. Giroux

What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly

The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, the Radical Remaking of Economics
by Eric Beinhocker

Complexity and Education: Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research
by Brent Davis and Dennis Sumara

The Fourth Way
by Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley

The Mindful Teacher
by Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald

Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization
by Yong Zhao

Death of the Liberal Class
by Chris Hedges

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by Chris Hedges

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Wisdom & Being Conscious of the Distractions
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