You may be a fan of textbooks or you may currently shun them BUT given a totally free choice what would go in to your dream KS3 textbook
I can barely remember life before Waugh
but then there came Geog dot
- a real breath of fresh air in the books marketplace. Since then publishers have held back, merely 'updating' the same old textbooks. Maybe it is now time for some next generation textbooks
fit for education in the 21st century?
So, assuming for convenience sake, publishers stick to a 'double page spread' format, how would you
ideally lay it out and what would it contain? What is missing from current textbooks that would make how you now teach easier and more effective?
Publishers have also tried to embrace CDs and the internet with varying success - is there a new formula that you
think would tie together a traditional textbook and flexible learning resources using these or other media?
is tricky for publishers now with the flexibility and less prescribed content in the New Secondary Curriculum statutory documents - so again, what is missing from existing textbooks in terms of the content that you would like to see made available.
Any ideas that you put forward in terms of layout, content and linked resources, I will pass on - you never know, you might see your ideal textbook
for sale this time next year.
Ideally, this is not a thread designed to give you an opportunity to 'put down' textbooks but to share ideas on how they might be 'improved'.....so positive suggestions welcomed please.