 NewsTeaching materials for OVERCLOCKED and LITTLE BROTHEROver the weekend, two educators wrote to me to tell me about blogs that contain curricular material based on my books. The first, from Donald Riggs at Drexel College in Philadelphia, contains links and supplementary material for students reading my second short story collection, Overclocked. Donald put the material together because Overclocked was Drexel's book of the year, given to the entire freshman class (I visited campus in November and met with students, taught a writing program, and gave a lecture). He's got a ton of good supplementary links and glossaries explaining the technical and genre terms for a lay audience. The second, from Deborah Menkart at the Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People ’s History project is a recommendation for teachers whose students are working with Howard Zinn's brilliant "Peoples' History" books to include Little Brother in their works. Coming from a family of teachers (both parents, brother) and serving on faculty at two universities at present (Open University, UK and University of Waterloo, Canada), I'm always intensely gratified when educators use my material with their students. One Response to “Teaching materials for OVERCLOCKED and LITTLE BROTHER”Leave a Reply
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“I can talk about Little Brother in terms of its bravura political speculation or its brilliant uses of technology — each of which make this book a must-read — but, at the end of it all, I’m haunted by the universality of Marcus’s rite-of-passage and struggle, an experience any teen today is going to grasp: the moment when you choose what your life will mean and how to achieve it.
Steven C. Gould, author of Jumper [Read more quotes about the book]  ISBN: 0765319853
ISBN: 0007288425
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I will use this in my course Language of the Media next term. Makers is excellent, too, but since we read 1984 first, this seems like the perfect fit. I wonder why Orwell imagined technology only centralizing all communication - why he could not picture little brothers spinning their own truths? If I or my students come up with any clever insights, I'll be sure to post them.