21 Responses to “Next Textbooks are…”

1. Sara Carter
   June 26th, 2011 @ 8:22 am

   Absolutely exquisite post. Bravo!

   As a parent and teacher, I yearn for the day we may be delivered from the grasp of the behemoth MBS.

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2. Mack
   June 27th, 2011 @ 9:10 am

   Also think this is a great post. Very nice to hear from peoples points of view how new textbooks should be. In thinking about the future of textbooks, I blogged about a collaborative textbook idea. Would appreciate input http://bit.ly/mDErZI

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3. Charlene
   June 27th, 2011 @ 1:29 pm

   I like how you are defining books of the future as “next” textbooks. I hope the publishers are listening. Be sure to check out some good ideas presented at the 2011 Connected Summit from ACU…there is a track for the Future of the Book. http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/conferences/summit/tracks/index.HTML

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4. David Truss
   June 28th, 2011 @ 6:35 pm

   Excellent!
   As simple as it may seem to say, may I also add that old text books are stagnant while new textbooks are hyperlinked.

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5. Paul McKenzie
   June 28th, 2011 @ 6:36 pm

   Old Textbooks are resource hungry – costly to the planet and intended users.

   Next textbooks will be Open Resources – environmentally cost-effective and as free as the minds that create them.

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8. Mathieu Plourde
   June 29th, 2011 @ 10:29 am

   Excellent list you have compiled here, David. I have had this issue on my mind for a while, and your post shook away my writer’s block. In my post, I mostly talk about the linearity of the traditional textbook. See: http://sites.udel.edu/open/2011/06/textbook-future/

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9. MarkMNW
   June 29th, 2011 @ 2:55 pm

   The sooner, the better

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10. Vernon
    June 29th, 2011 @ 11:28 pm

    I wish the giant textbooks could go away tomorrow but they are going to be here for a while. Are there any ways in which I could address digital textbooks to my board of education without laughter being involved?
    I like the idea of being able to constantly revise and change information but who would be allowed to edit say, a math book? I could see a student getting a hold of a few word problems and quickly making a mess of things.

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    David Warlick reply on July 1st, 2011:

    Vernon,

    If your students have sufficient access ICT, then I would just go ahead and set up a Moodle and start constructing your digital textbook there — or “digital curriculum” as someone called it at ISTE this week.

    – dave –

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11. Kenneth Mol
    June 30th, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

    This blog is very similar to a research paper I just presented in one of my masters classes at Grand Valley State University (the class was Educational Technology Integration EDT 619 with Dr. Sean Lancaster). The paper was addressing the significant value of e-storybooks versus traditional storybooks when it comes to emergent literacy (here is a link to my research summary page if you want to know a bit more about the article: http://goo.gl/hh5Uv). The gist of the paper was that even though their is research out there showing the positive outcomes of e-storybooks, the research is not cohesive and more research should be conducted. Does anyone have a viewpoint on this?

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12. Jack Kriss
    July 2nd, 2011 @ 5:02 pm

    Old term: Textbooks
    New term: ?????

    The results of this work are great. When the new model arrives the term textbook will have to be replaced.

    Textbook: a book used by students as a standard work for a particular branch of study.

    Along with the other descriptions provided,the dynamic nature and interconnected links of the new model, along with the term itself “TEXT” “BOOK” are the polar opposite of what is being created. Texas has proposed removing the term “textbook” and replacing with “instructional resources”.

    So what term(s) will be used? I like “Learning Nets” or “Learningnet”

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    David Warlick reply on July 3rd, 2011:

    @Jack Kriss,

    Neal Stephenson called it, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, in The Diamond Age – a book I strongly recommend. But someone in one of the unconference sessions I attended at EduBloggerCon called it her digital curriculum. That makes perfect sense to me.

    – dave –

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    Matt reply on November 18th, 2011:

    @Jack Kriss,

    “digitext”

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15. James McConville
    October 21st, 2011 @ 4:05 pm

    Great post, would like to see publishers continue their role in creating and augmenting their current (non-digital) textbooks.

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16. Melissa
    November 16th, 2011 @ 1:35 pm

    May I pose a question to you. How do you propose students from low income families purchase the digital means necessary for them to have the next generation of textbooks? Most of the students in my class struggle to meet basic needs, less than 5% of my students have access to a computer outside of the computer lab at school, so homework would not be available to them if they do not have the access needed outside of the classroom.

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    David Warlick reply on November 17th, 2011:

    @Melissa, This is not, perhaps, the answer you were expecting, but, “It’s not my problem!” It’s not your problem, nor is it that of your principal or superintendent.

    That people in this country (assuming you’re in the U.S.) do not have convenient access to today’s prevailing information landscape is a huge and looming problem, and it’s a national problem.

    Education is the fuel that determines our future and drives our prosperity, and I would suggest our well-being as self-fulfilled individuals, and education should (must) reflect today’s information environments, which is networked, digital, and abundant. That children are still learning from 15th century information technologies (and many without even that) is a shame on their country.

    Democracy should be working a whole lot better than that!

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17. meissa
    November 17th, 2011 @ 8:39 am

    I completely agree. However, how do we, the collective educated body, get the hardward to those who most desperately need it. As an educator, I cannot hold my students responsible for material that they do not have access to. I must therefore may it part of my problem if I am exptected to teach it. I would like to know your thoughts on how we, again the collective educated body, get the few who have access to large amounts of hardware to relinquish it to the masses who do not have ready access to it.

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