“Considerations for Selecting and Using Textbooks”

There are good books and not so good books, but there is no such a thing as an useless book. The book is a reference… The same I would consider true for the textbooks as well. So traditional textbook more difficult for reading then the others? Of course they are (some references are harder to understand than the others) , but perhaps we should ask who is making them more difficult? Many times... [Read more]

“Hath! Doth! What? Middle graders reading innovative history text”

Studying diverse history content is a demanding tesk and often misunderstood among young students. Middle school students often face many conception challenges often as a consequence of their historical thinking and the way they read the history books and textbooks. It was an interesting reading, however it seems quite non-traditional compared with everything I’ve seen/ reed so far…However... [Read more]

The case for dialogic inquiry

In the reading Wells has described a knowledge building as an active process of making meaning, where the student is not primarily the passive recipient of information but an active meaning-producer. So, the way I understand the teacher’s role here is to provide the student with an access to information and the means to create or re-create their own personal meaning from the given information.... [Read more]