Mathematics And Science Textbooks Manifesto

“Eleven chapters have shown that textbooks supply irrelevant and even erroneous details, while omitting pivotal questions and facts in their treatments of issues...” (Loewen, pg. 301). Throughout this book, Loewen

Shanahan identifies that general reading skills can only take a student so far. A student can comprehend and read a text well, however the disciplinary approach could allow them to take that even further. The example given has to deal with general summaries and how they often look similar throughout

The moment we open our laptops or unlock our phones to look for answers for a worksheet we were given, or read a brief chapter summary instead of reading the novel, we automatically minimize the amount of information we could gain from the assignment and block out our own ideas. We live in a generation where ‘googling’ a difficult question is more common than legitimately trying to find a solution. Of course it is easier to not do the work, but when we don’t do it, we miss out on so much material. As stated in Source A, “…Weaver said she felt strangely drawn into the plot overview and continued on.” This source explains a situation about a student in college who show her appreciation for John Steinbeck literature, which would not have occurred if she would have merely read Spark Notes. Connecting an emotional bond to the pieces of literature we are assigned to read is one of the most beautiful experiences in the world. Unfortunately, a large proportion student will ever know that feeling. Instead, they will know Cliff Notes and Spark Notes. They will know websites that leave out vital details that help construct a book into its unique form. Source E shows an accurate example of this, as it demonstrates a web page featuring Cliff Notes, with a header at the top reading “READ LESS.” Consequently, however, we don’t just read less. We learn less

This is one reason that materials in many school libraries today date from the 1960s and early 1970s, before funding was diverted. (p.141-142). the school library not update many new edition textbooks, sometimes we can find many earlier text books with old edition in the school library that not related to the fact that we need in classrooms. Since the new text books are more expensive so the school library budget should be increase to buy more new textbooks because outdated books will give students misinformation. I agree with the source, I think it is important for students to select what to read and what to learn to help them gain the knowledge. If they still learning from the old materials, this causes students to disengagement and impact on student effecting learning. By select of instructional materials that meet the needs of students and fit the constraints of the learning environment, student can be more actively learn. Therefore, encourage students to use the new textbooks can make them ask more questions from the books that require more critical thinking skills. Also, new information can help students develop higher thinking skill related to the fact. For example, students go beyond the textbook to study complex topics based on real-world issues, such as the recent industry in the communities or the health develop... they can

Which turned out to be the Social Studies textbook. With this textbook they were more successful with having what they want in that there and not with what is beneficial for students. This also showed that sometimes they didn't follow with some facts that were backed up with facts. Also not all the board members are on the same page because there was one scene where a board member was trying to speak but wasn't given the chance to. This frustrated him, although he is a member of the board he didn't get a chance to speak because the other board didn't want to hear what he had to say. They also wanted to change how certain incidents happened also the culture of some ethnic

They have found that the teachers only go over what they really want to go over and leave out a lot of the important details. “Gradually they end up going through the motions, staying ahead of their students in the textbooks, covering only material that will appear on the next text.”(pg.12) College professors want the students to know most of the material; or of at least heard of most of it before they get to college. “History professors in college routinely put down high school history courses. A colleague of mine calls his survey of American history “Iconoclasm I and II,” because he sees his job as disabusing his charges of what they learned in high school. In no other field does this happen. Mathematics professors, for instance, know that non-Euclidean geometry is rarely taught in high school, but they assume that Euclidean geometry was mistaught. Professors of english literature don’t presume that Romeo and Juliet was misunderstood in high school.”(pg.12)

Preview main points (Topics in the speech body): The amount of money students pay for textbooks is steadily increasing and most of us don’t even use those textbooks.

I like how we had to write a summary for every chapter, because then It kinda forces the students to actually pay attention to the book. Like if we didn’t have to, I bet some students wouldn’t really payed attention, and they wouldn’t got what the author was trying to tell the readers.

Yes! Text books need to be placed into their position they were meant for, supplemental teaching methods. In order to do this, a teacher must understand how valuable and knowledgeable they are in a classroom setting, as well as know their own boundaries. “Textbooks can never do the work for the teacher” (Kauckak & Eggen, 2007). Teachers need to teach and not use textbooks for personal placement over their own unique teaching methods. Mooney and Mausbach stated in their article align the textbook to fit around your teaching methods, don’t lose balance and leadership over the classroom. There are many other methods to textbooks than just hard copies, “a teacher could download a digital copy and use it for interaction on the smartboard” (Klymkowsky, 2007). Textbooks allow teachers to gain fabulous ideas for lesson plans, grade level building, and data consumption. “Teachers need to use their own creativity to format lessons to teach the students, so that all student’s needs are meet” (Klymkowsky

Marc Presnky argues that college should ban the use of physical books to encourage the use of electronic books. He gives three reasons to support his argument. The author of the article “College Should Mandate That All Textbooks Be Digitized” states three main advantages of having a bookless higher education. He believes that society should move beyond “physical books of the past” in order to move “education into the future” (Presnky). By employing the use of digitized books, Presnky believes that people will have features not quickly available to physical books such as comments or analysis about a book. Lastly, Presnky believes the biggest advantage of fully transitioning to e-books is the liberation of ideas from printed pages. He thinks

Textbooks are still being written for profit, politics, and nationalism. Education boards have been around for centuries and they are the ones who decide what they want their state or nation to recognize as valid history. Modern day education boards are revising textbooks to outline many narrow minded ideas such as in Texas where, “they wanted the texts to establish that the U.S. is a ‘Christian land governed by Christian principles” (The Week), and “ Slavery under the new standards, would no longer be described as America’s original sin, and would become “the Atlantic triangular trade” (The Week), such revisions will strongly affect the views of

Writing 80-100 page books by hand would be so exhausting. John is strong willed and so dedicated to making sure he gets all the material. That he will sit down and hand write textbooks.“ I spent a lot of time hand-copying the library books, so I could read them at my hut” ( 155). John does not just study what’s on the test, he studies all of it. He wants to learn all the information not just some of

Brave New World gives us a full view of how books are disappearing and how they are seen as unimportant. “You can’t learn a science unless you know what it’s about.” (Huxley pg. 27) Taking into mind, their society values moral education.

This is an era that everything wants faster and easier, that’s why humans invented a lot of things, such as computers, printers, network, Google and SparkNotes. It is believed that almost all of the students have heard of SparkNotes, before this is called CliffsNotes. This is something that makes students of this generation to become complacent in “short-cut” society, unless they use as far as a helper. So today, I want to say is short-cut about Sparknotes.

This paper explores the pros and cons of using digital formats verses print formats of textbooks, particularly e-textbooks and traditional textbooks, and seeks to ask how effective these textbook formats are for university students and their studies. The purpose of this paper is to examine these different textbook formats is to see which has the potential and ability to help students in the best capacity possible. There are clear reasons on how digital textbooks and