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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Cutting-Edge Curricula Killing the Textbook]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/cutting-edge-curricula-killing-the-textbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/cutting-edge-curricula-killing-the-textbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ppamala, what are you smoking? What does that have to do with digital textbooks? Give us all a break.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 14th 2009 7:39AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Cutting-Edge Curricula Killing the Textbook]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/cutting-edge-curricula-killing-the-textbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/cutting-edge-curricula-killing-the-textbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[The content of textbooks is dependebt upon who writes them just as the internet is dependent on who writes for them and what biases they have. Everyone assumes that what they read on line is the truth. Of course that isn't always so. Primary source verification is necessary to assure as best as possible the veracity of the text whether in book form or on the internet.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tjstieg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 14th 2009 11:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Cutting-Edge Curricula Killing the Textbook]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/cutting-edge-curricula-killing-the-textbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/08/14/cutting-edge-curricula-killing-the-textbook/</guid><description><![CDATA[I love how the new certitude that "modern students...don't engage with textbooks that are finite, linear and rote" so often gets used with a straight face and apparently without any expectation that it can be challenged. What does "don't" mean? "are not given a chance to?" And we're hearing a technology professional (surprise!) express the usual techie gripe against printed books in an unsupported assertion that the brain of the human species has changed recently. Excuse me while I go cough up a hairball. I'm reading above that kids "think in less concrete ways than their forebears." Really? What does "less concretely" mean? I have a 4 year old who thinks in ways I would describe as concretely and also in ways I would describe as "abstractly", but I don't believe her thinking processes are any different from what mine were at that age. It's an idiotic argument based on unfounded assumptions. Or are we saying simply that kids have to handle more simultaneous inputs of information these days? That's certainly true, but is the resultant inability to focus and to learn from what you call "finite" sources something we simply throw more addictive tools at? I think it makes more sense to asky why everyone suddenly has ADHD and return to a focus on the cognitive tools of learning, which teach kids how to teach themselves, instead of on the hardware and software tools, which teach kids how to look up information on a computer.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 7th 2009 3:35PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
