Anonymous
11/21/2025 14:30
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids learn differently today than they did 20 years ago. Textbooks just aren't required to help facilitate learning. Most kids will learn something, get interested in the lesson, and go online to do additional digging on the content. I don't really think there's anything wrong with them. We're living in a digital world so it's best they utilize the digital world for building their research skills to learn content. It's kind of like asking to bring back the Yellow Pages to find a business ... would we actually use that today?
Hmm… So please explain then why TJ bothers to have a list of textbooks if so worthless today? What a funny thing to do- to list a bunch of books that “don’t facilitate learning.”
https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/math-textbooks-isbn-numbers
What a funny thing to do to post a bunch of textbooks and their ISBN numbers if the textbooks aren't being provided by the school to facilitate learning! Maybe someone wants to see if the students can list the textbook not used during the exam. Go ask a TJ kid how they're learning math content and you'll get the real skinny on what high-achieving kids are using for their learning.
The textbooks are actually available at the school.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 14:14
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kids learn differently today than they did 20 years ago. Textbooks just aren't required to help facilitate learning. Most kids will learn something, get interested in the lesson, and go online to do additional digging on the content. I don't really think there's anything wrong with them. We're living in a digital world so it's best they utilize the digital world for building their research skills to learn content. It's kind of like asking to bring back the Yellow Pages to find a business ... would we actually use that today?
Hmm… So please explain then why TJ bothers to have a list of textbooks if so worthless today? What a funny thing to do- to list a bunch of books that “don’t facilitate learning.”
https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/math-textbooks-isbn-numbers
What a funny thing to do to post a bunch of textbooks and their ISBN numbers if the textbooks aren't being provided by the school to facilitate learning! Maybe someone wants to see if the students can list the textbook not used during the exam. Go ask a TJ kid how they're learning math content and you'll get the real skinny on what high-achieving kids are using for their learning.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 14:01
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
On top of laptops are all of the Ed tech licenses
Anonymous
11/21/2025 13:45
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension.
I'd love to know what subjects get "outdated quickly" at the FCPS level. Math, science, literature, arts, history - is someone teaching a subject that requires yearly updates? I doubt it.
Revised editions come out every few years not yearly. Even if a school does not purchase for updated content, books eventually have to be replaced due to damages and use. It is costly.
It's worth the cost IMO, but the initial question was "why" schools changed. A big reason is money.
Laptops aren't free either. It would be interesting to see the cost differences between them. And that's ignoring the fact that schools seemed to do better with textbooks than laptops.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 13:45
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension.
I'd love to know what subjects get "outdated quickly" at the FCPS level. Math, science, literature, arts, history - is someone teaching a subject that requires yearly updates? I doubt it.
In Virginia, the standards for these subjects are reviewed and modified every seven years. At the elementary level, it’s common for each grade level to have a few standards that shift down a level and a few that shift up a level each time this happens. It’s also common for the application of the standard to change, such as adding that students now need to interpret a model. So the textbooks do become outdated, in terms of being able to use them effectively and correctly, every seven years.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 13:30
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension.
I'd love to know what subjects get "outdated quickly" at the FCPS level. Math, science, literature, arts, history - is someone teaching a subject that requires yearly updates? I doubt it.
Revised editions come out every few years not yearly. Even if a school does not purchase for updated content, books eventually have to be replaced due to damages and use. It is costly.
It's worth the cost IMO, but the initial question was "why" schools changed. A big reason is money.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 13:08
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a teachers union created a partnership with this rogue company
Nope. Teachers aren't in on this one. Came from above.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 13:04
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Kids learn differently today than they did 20 years ago. Textbooks just aren't required to help facilitate learning. Most kids will learn something, get interested in the lesson, and go online to do additional digging on the content. I don't really think there's anything wrong with them. We're living in a digital world so it's best they utilize the digital world for building their research skills to learn content. It's kind of like asking to bring back the Yellow Pages to find a business ... would we actually use that today?
Hmm… So please explain then why TJ bothers to have a list of textbooks if so worthless today? What a funny thing to do- to list a bunch of books that “don’t facilitate learning.”
https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/math-textbooks-isbn-numbers
Anonymous
11/21/2025 12:55
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Kids learn differently today than they did 20 years ago. Textbooks just aren't required to help facilitate learning. Most kids will learn something, get interested in the lesson, and go online to do additional digging on the content. I don't really think there's anything wrong with them. We're living in a digital world so it's best they utilize the digital world for building their research skills to learn content. It's kind of like asking to bring back the Yellow Pages to find a business ... would we actually use that today?
Think of elementary school with piles of worksheets where there is no option to review the past lessons, no option to check out what’s next. I’m pretty sure having a textbook would facilitate learning for them.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 12:32
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension.
I'd love to know what subjects get "outdated quickly" at the FCPS level. Math, science, literature, arts, history - is someone teaching a subject that requires yearly updates? I doubt it.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 12:08
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Kids learn differently today than they did 20 years ago. Textbooks just aren't required to help facilitate learning. Most kids will learn something, get interested in the lesson, and go online to do additional digging on the content. I don't really think there's anything wrong with them. We're living in a digital world so it's best they utilize the digital world for building their research skills to learn content. It's kind of like asking to bring back the Yellow Pages to find a business ... would we actually use that today?
Anonymous
11/21/2025 11:44
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension.
Maybe true for some but not all. Math is math and all in one book easier than 8000 single page worksheets!
Anonymous
11/21/2025 11:27
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 10:51
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
Anonymous wrote:I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.
Anonymous
11/21/2025 10:38
Subject: Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously
I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay. Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook. Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.
Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted.