{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19668727","dateCreated":"1265170863","smartDate":"Feb 2, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"JanStanton","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/JanStanton","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sas-ssreview.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19668727"},"dateDigested":1531982905,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Digital Textbooks","description":"I think digital texts are coming whether we're ready for them or not! I agree that students are able to multi-task using digital programs, but without remote access, teachers will be unable to "guide" students away from inappropriate\/non-task oriented multi-tasking. On the other hand, an exemplary SAS Middle School teacher, Tony Erni, recently chose not to distribute science textbooks and had his students create their own digital textbooks (which addressed all curriculum standards and benchmarks) and the end product was extremely IMPRESSIVE !!! Give Tony a stipend and let him teach the rest of us how to do this!!","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19733107","body":"Thanks for the link Alicia. Online textbooks are coming; heck, they are here. I doubt, however, that they will look like the rather "flat" textbooks at CK-12, which are really just textbooks in a digital format. I think they will look more like the textbooks (if that is a proper name for them, perhaps curricula would be better since they are the whole current "textbook" package (text, question banks, videos, overheads, activities, anticipatory sets, etc.) rolled together into a kind of integrated interactive mind blowing package) being created by K-12 (see http:\/\/www.k12.com\/take-a-peek\/sample-lessons\/<\/a>). On the other hand, at least for now, some students still want to hold a book in their hand. I have digitized all my textbooks and made them available for my kids. Many of my kids don't want textbooks, but a number of them do. Some prefer to hold the "book" in their hands. I suspect, however, that will change. We think of our kids as digital, and they are more digital than we were\/are, but they still grew up with books too. When we read them Seuss in Kindles, and they don't have bookshelves, they probably will all prefer a digital text to paper. It makes me sad. I love the smell of libraries.","dateCreated":"1265286001","smartDate":"Feb 4, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"loomerds","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/loomerds","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1265286225\/loomerds-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"19638235","dateCreated":"1265135058","smartDate":"Feb 2, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"nallan08","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nallan08","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1233621220\/nallan08-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sas-ssreview.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19638235"},"dateDigested":1531982905,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Resources","description":"Let me start by saying that neither I nor my Humanities colleagues in 8th grade have used a textbook this year to teach Social Studies.
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\nI agree with the key points made in the article that textbooks are becoming antiquated for those schools who have 1:1 laptop programs because there is are so many free yet valuable resources online.
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\nA few things to consider:
\n1. Students need to be taught to evaluate websites for their validity\/reliability PRIOR to using them. (Kathleen - one of our Apple PD consultants - did a FANTASTIC lesson on this for my students earlier this year.)
\n2. We need to remember to make use of Discovery Education Streaming, as it is a resource we pay for that is available to both students and teachers. It not only provides videos that can be downloaded (instead of streaming), but it also contains images and documents as well, some of which are primary sources. These are great for building background knowledge as well as for research.
\n3. Textbooks are still a great resource\/tool for teaching and learning, when used effectively (not as what drives what\/how we teach). However, if we are going to adopt and purchase textbooks in the future, we should consider decreasing the order to a few class sets that can be shared among colleagues of the same grade level.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"19619741","dateCreated":"1265116266","smartDate":"Feb 2, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"alicia_lewis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alicia_lewis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1264213388\/alicia_lewis-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/sas-ssreview.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19619741"},"dateDigested":1531982905,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Resources 2010-2016","description":"What primary resources will ensure your classroom is one which promotes digital literacy, an analysis of information, and the critical skill-based needed for a rapidly changing, global citizen?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19668783","body":"Hopefully, these primary sources will be identified as part of our curriculum review process.","dateCreated":"1265171019","smartDate":"Feb 2, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"JanStanton","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/JanStanton","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}