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100+ Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks | Teaching Tips
"What would your classroom be like without your students cracking open their oversized textbooks everyday? Probably a lot more interesting, especially for the kiddies. There are so many other resources out there for teachers to use, online and off, that teaching without textbooks is becoming more and more acceptable. If you don’t believe us, scroll down this list of over 100 different resources — including websites, iPod lectures and field trips — that will encourage you to toss out your textbooks."
CK-12.org
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
TeachPaperless: From the Horse's Mouth: a Textbook Editor Responds
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There are a lot of intelligent, well-meaning, passionate people in textbook publishing. But unfortunately, the goal of textbook publishers is not ultimately to make a book that is of great value to teachers and students. Their goal is to please adoption comittees [sic] and district administrators who decide which books to purchase. To do otherwise would ignore the biggest markets and the biggest profits.
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To truly change the educational system, change needs to happen to the standards themselves to make them more open and flexible and to allow for innovation in the classroom.
Education reform: Let's start by burning all the textbooks - Computerworld Blogs
Paper textbooks are problematic in two ways: First, they're paper. Second, they're textbooks. Let me explain.
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Here's one modest proposal from the tech blogosphere: Get rid of paper textbooks in favor of digital books and materials for high school and college students as a way to both improve education and cut costs.
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Paper textbooks are problematic in two ways: First, they're paper. Second, they're textbooks. Let me explain.
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CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks
CK-12 allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner's learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards.
GottaBeMobile - How To Get Those Textbooks On Your Tablet PC : Tablet PC & Mobile PC News & Video Reviews, and Tablet PC Forums
Books are heavy. Their margins provide only so much space to write in. I love tablet technology. These three truths motivated me to be a paperless law student. It is totally worth it.
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Books are heavy. Their margins provide only so much space to write in. I love tablet technology. These three truths motivated me to be a paperless law student. It is totally worth it.
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1. Cut and Scan
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Textbook Revolution
For most of 2007, the site has appeared dormant to the outside world. But we’ll soon be emerging from our cocoon with a whole new look and a new sense of purpose.
Sorry honey, you can’t believe everything you read in your printed science textbook » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Great example of why textbooks are a huge waste of school funds
Make Textbooks Affordable
Tired of outrageous textbook prices? Can't sell back any of your books? Can't find any used books? Sick of all the extra CD-ROMs and workbooks that you don't ever use? We're fighting back against textbook ripoffs and we're making progress. Join our nation
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