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Question of the Week Archive
August 25, 2008 - September 2, 2008
Are Textbooks Really Dead?
Much has been written about the death of the textbook due to new technologies in the classroom. We're not holding our breath until that happens. However, new services such as Curriki do make integrating online instructional materials into a curriculum essentially seamless.
How much material do you pull from the Internet when preparing your lesson plans? |
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a) All the time. The primary source material I find online timely and dynamic—much richer than from the required textbooks. We hardly open them. |
 50.0% |
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b) Sometimes. I find good stuff to supplement what we do but I wouldn't say we could replace the good content we get from our textbooks. |
 50.0% |
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c) Never. You can't trust the stuff you find up there. We stick to what we know is accurate. |
 0.0% |
Carol McLaughlin - 26/08/2008 19:25
Most rural public schools are still under-funded for technology in the classroom and many are still writing grants to get up to speed. If I had a choice, as classroom teacher, I would use textbooks 20% of the time and Internet sources 80% to collect facts and data, to view interactive videos/tutorials and live webinars (from professionals or other like-kind networking schools around the world). This is the information age and our students are a large part of this dominant electronic communications society.
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