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history teachers fail to teach what is outside of the textbook, obscure the truth behind controversial events, and highlight insignificant…

not teach or is the textbook that makes it boring? In “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen, he criticizes how textbooks distort American History in a way that corresponds with the mindset of rich white Americans through the “heroification” of historical figures and America itself, the mistreatment of Native American peoples, and the enslavement of African American peoples. American history textbooks have been prone to make historical figures into…

NAME: Kingdy Septembre Topic: Textbooks should be replaced by a tablet. General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates with three reasons why textbooks should be replaced by a tablet. Central Idea: Using tablet is health benefiting, cost-efficient, and benefits student learning. INTRODUCTION Imagine yourself, walking a football field with 3 gallons of water on your back.You would do this 7 times a day 5 days a week and 36 weeks a year.…

The Scopes trial was the case against John Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton Tennessee. Scopes was charged for defying Tennessee's newly placed Butler Act. This case is what catapulted the dispute of creationism versus evolution and how it should be taught in schools. The outcome of this 1925 trial affected the rest of the 19th century extensively, however as the 20th century neared, the effect became less prevalent. John Scopes was a local biology teacher and was arrested for teaching…

Tablets/computers are significantly lighter than textbooks. Having multiple textbooks in students backpacks can cause serious back problems or injuries. “Chiropractors recommend that students carry less than 15% of their body weight in their backpacks. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission states that in the 2011-2012…

War. In order to this point, Loewen highlights the differences in coverage in textbooks of the Vietnam War in comparison to smaller wars, as well as how these textbooks represent or gloss over events that occurred during the war. First off, Loewen supports his main idea that American students are actually quite unaware of events in recent history, due to these events being omitted or not heavily focused upon in our textbooks. Loewen says the last students to have…

information on the Americas and European is numerous. There is evidence the authors wrote the textbook in a Eurocentric tone. Honestly, the authors were very far from avoiding Eurocentrism and there are ways to avoid the ironic misfortune. Firstly, the case studies are imbalanced amongst the eleven countries. Secondly, Eurocentric based countries have additional material. The next issue is the textbook covers superfluous mainstream countries, which makes the context missing other cultures.…

Providing Technology to Students Imagine walking around for seven hours, with a textbook for almost every class along with notebooks and binders to go along with it. It was found that students are carrying backpack loads that weigh 15% more than their actual body weight (“Study: School Backpacks Too Heavy”). This can damage the body along with their posture. If these physical textbooks are replaced with digital textbooks on computers or iPads, that will take off a great load of weight, thus…

substantial awareness of the abundance and distribution of species throughout the world is required (Textbook pg. 53,60). Our current knowledge of the amount of species present on Earth is imprecise for a variety of reasons; however, in order to move forward with protecting biodiversity, conservation biologists must have at least minimal knowledge of what they are setting out to conserve (Textbook pg. 60). Convincing a legislative body to divert money and attention into conserving an ecosystem…

It’s math class, the teacher says “Turn to page 328.” There is no page 328. Wait a minute… somebody must have ripped it out! Bad incidents with textbooks are stopping kids from learning and reaching their full potential. Technology should be the primary way of learning. Not only would be using technology be more resourceful, it would replace textbooks, and would advance communities into the future. Technology is more resourceful. There are online tools to adjust to your every need. This can be…