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"Close Reading and Argument Writing - Authentically Across the Curriculum 7/16/2015 0 Comments Close reading of informational texts and non-fiction articles is not - and should not be - reserved for language arts classes. Every content area would be immensely enhanced if science teachers, social studies teachers, physical education teachers, welding teachers, woodworking teachers (in other words, "all technical subjects," as Common Core states) would not push aside the textbook, but instead embrace it, along with content area and trade articles. Students would then simultaneously learn how to dissect the readings while gaining knowledge in these content areas. What often happens is that teachers feel that students can't handle the text books or can't read the articles independently - and often that is true. However, when teachers instead go into a survival mode, of sorts, and read aloud the whole chapter or article or summarize it with a slideshow, it ends up doing a disservice to students - students are not learning HOW to read these complex texts. They are not learning how to acquire the information on their own. They are not being given the skills to read the sometimes intricate information within a particular content area or even within their possible future trade. They are not being given the opportunity to read, understand, articulate, and discuss or even debate topics within their area of study. Teachers sometimes feel that they can't do these things with students because they are not language arts teachers, or because they don't have time, or simply because they don't know how. Alternatively, a simple solution is to let go of the control and let students do…..with the guidance called close reading. Close reading is a guided reading approach. It is guided because 1) the close reading strategy is reserved for complex texts that are often too high for students to be left with independently and 2) students don't use close reading strateg

"This book is a collection of homework problems for use in an introductory physics course. It is a work in progress, currently complete through mechanics and electromagnetism. There is a complete set of ancillary materials, including solutions and an online answer checker. If you're an instructor, you can use these problems as a plug-in replacement for the ones in a commercial textbook, thus insulating yourself from common hassles associated with using the problems from a commercial text. For example, you can change books without having to redo all your problem sets, or you can tell your students that they can use any edition of a particular text."

Fernando Trujillo realiza un raconto de distintas posturas frente al tema de libros de texto sí/no, así como también pautas e ideas a implementar, pensar, repensar.

Siguiendo la temática del libro de textos sí/no, Fernando Trujillo avanza a ciertas pautas e ideas a seguir/implementar, pensar, recomendaciones, etc "Paso 1: Compartir una visión Paso 2: Curar contenidos Paso 3: Practicar los infinitivos Paso 4: Revisar críticamente nuestras prácticas y materiales Paso 5: Usar herramientas y artefactos digitales Paso 6: Integrar el currículo Paso 7: Confiar en el proceso ¿merece la pena? Todos los indicios parecen indicar que sí, pero debemos estar alertas ante la más mínima posibilidad de no estar ofreciendo una educación de calidad por haber abandonado los libros de texto. Si vamos a hacer lo mismo o incluso algo peor, no es necesario cambiar nada. Solo si ponemos todo nuestro empeño en realizar una oferta educativa de calidad a nuestros estudiantes debemos acometer este reto: nuestra profesionalidad está en juego, sí, pero sobre todo lo que nos jugamos es la ocasión de ofrecer a nuestros estudiantes una experiencia deplorable o una experiencia memorable. Esa es la responsabilidad que debemos afrontar en la decisión de hacer de nuestro centro un espacio libre de libros de texto."

Artículo sobre libros de texto. (English).

"... Los libros de texto contribuyen al fracaso académico de los estudiantes, cuando en las aulas son la fuente principal o única de información, y generan dinámicas de trabajo en las que los estudiantes tienen que escuchar en silencio las explicaciones basadas en esos libros, para después memorizar sus contenidos. Propician el fracaso escolar porque: ..."

"... Los libros de texto contribuyen al fracaso académico de los estudiantes, cuando en las aulas son la fuente principal o única de información, y generan dinámicas de trabajo en las que los estudiantes tienen que escuchar en silencio las explicaciones basadas en esos libros, para después memorizar sus contenidos. Propician el fracaso escolar porque: ..."