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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if you any of you have met your kids but they’re constantly on their phones, on YouTube and Snapchat and their Nintendo switches. YOU bought them these devices! And then you’re surprised that the school can’t hold their attention by asking them to turn to page 497 of their textbook and read about imperialism? What do you think happens if we ask students to sit and copy facts in 2022? It isn’t how we present or digest information anymore. Very few jobs will require them to use skills like that, either. In college and in graduate school we used very few old school textbooks. It was primarily digital resources, and on the odd occasion the professor would run off copies of a few pages of a textbook. You are living in the past.

If you want to buy your child textbooks, go for it. Similar to asking students to copy a sentence 100 times, wear a dunce cap and stare at the wall, or memorize poetry, textbooks are not part of modern pedagogy. [/quote]

I didn’t hear anyone say that textbooks couldn’t hold students attention. In fact, I read posters saying just the opposite. I’m very much living in the present, but there are some things I’d prefer weren’t happening. That isn’t living in the past. I’m a teacher by the way and it is not true that textbooks aren’t part of modern pedagogy.[/quote]

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