THIS IS
A PRESENT, YOU CAN TAKE IT OR YOU CAN LEAVE IT, IT'S UP TO YOU. ;)
To start with the weekly role, I would
like to give you an extra "concept" or I better say "idea"
that I have found sailing on the net. It is a web site about free
resources for education, yes you've heard well, free resources for
education where you can log in for FREE and choose whatever you think is
good for preparing your teaching lessons. Please don't hesitate to click on the
link below and find out more about such interesting site.
CK-12
More info about CK-12 found on its web
site.
CK-12 provides open-source content and
technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students
globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content
in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning
styles and levels will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and
experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike
by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of
teaching and learning styles.
We need to go from today’s “fixed time,
variable learning” to a “variable time, fixed learning” model or even
better, “maximum capability learning” within a teacher’s constraints of
standards compliance and other administrative rules in their region. This
new model adapts to each student level, style, and circumstance while
leveraging new digital tools to answer the most fundamental questions: “What
can digitization do for the textbook?” and “What can digitization
do for learning?” instead of the more mundane “How can the textbook become
digital?”. Leveraging these new tools to multiply and enhance learning
resources (such as video, simulations, and peer learning) is key to CK-12’s
mission. CK-12’s goal is to provide tools that can help increase student
learning through engagement, and to provide more universal access to
learning and learning content, irrespective of educational resources available
for a student or region. Additionally, CK-12 aims to reduce the impact of
educational resources needed (by teachers or by classrooms) by leveraging good
teachers, and when teachers are poor, burned out or not available, CK-12 will
provide direct access to students for their own learning.
NOW LET'S DO OUR DUTIES FOR THIS WEEK.
After a while thinking and thinking and
thinking and thinking and thinking....OMG!!! What a thought! Ok let's be
serious. After a while thinking on mi 5 concepts for this week, I've
got to the conclusion that I wanted to tell the idea of "Dark side of
textbooks" by using concepts that by isolating then you can even
appreciate de "Clear side of textbooks" but when you are putting then
all together you can see the real truth.
We'll do it by steps, first one: The
definition provided by Cambridge Dictionary.
1-GOVERNMENT: The group of people who
officially controls a country
2-MARKET: the people who might want to buy something, or a part of the world where something is sold the business or trade in a particular product, including financial products
4-BIAS(sesgo): the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment
5-TEXBOOKS: a book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying that subject
Ok. Now think about the 5 concepts and try
to find out something negative....................have you fond
something?.......... I don't think so............ these terms separately are
harmless but, what happen if we put them all together?
Have a look...
The GOVERNMENT as a group of people, who officially
control the country, encourages the MARKET as this is the engine of the economy
and is formed by people who might want to buy or
trade something in a particular context. In the other hand there is
the PUBLISHER who are organization that publishes
text or music, this organizations depend of the marker to raise their incomes
and for that reason they embed on their BOOKS productions a political BIAS (sesgos) in order to satisfy the government
interest and also to get benefits and good position on the market. as markets
are controlled in some part by the government.
Now probably you have a mess in your mind...
Find out below a very simple mathematical calculation to solve this tricky conclusion.
GOVERNMENT+MARKET+PUBLISHER+BIAS+BOOKS= The dark side of textbooks
The End
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