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Teaching/Education

Students, textbooks and web content

Tim has some thoughts about textbooks over at TextBOOKs? – Sansblogue

This familiarity factor is gradually diminishing as students come into the system with less familiarity with print codex works as a major part of their previous study. Already some of our first year students (younger than the average, and straight form school) only use print books if we encourage them to. Most of these students’ assignments are written using resources available on the Web, if I am lucky through Google books. But often from websites of pastors sermons, or reprints of devotional classics.

Which, in turn, connects through to this set of helpful resources – Wabash Center – Teaching Students to Evaluate Web Content.

(Hat tip to Mary at Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Evaluating web content).