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 and
Earthworks - 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?
Actual
content 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.