THE DARK SIDE OF TEXTBOOKS: JOURNALIST'S POV

Hi people!!! This is Javi, and this week I am going to be the journalist, I am very excited, because I’ve been waiting for this week a long time.

This week we made a work about “The dark side of Textbooks”, I think this was the most interesting activity we had done because the thematic, I mean, I have never expected that books are “evil”, and they are, we realized that with books not only students, it affects to their creativity, a not only for them, teachers also have to follow the structure of the book, avoiding talk or teach another things (included in the curriculum) that probably are more interesting and/or important than the content of the books.

Also, text books are very expensive as well as heavy, a student usually had in their bag more or less 7.5 kg of books, and this is a big problem, because they are developing their body.

This week we organized this way: we join the Tuesday afternoon to plan that the best option of the three that Linda offer us was the comic, because it was more creative and funnier than the others. At first we decided to made the comic with famous cartoons like Disney, and use the characters of Phineas and Ferb, the two brothers that all the days of the summer build, or create, an incredible thing, like a roller coaster, a beach in their garden, etc. and we thought a story in which the summer finished and they come back to school. The problem is that with the books their creativity goes off and they became like a government system robots.

Before think all the story we realized that we cannot use this type of characters, and also, the program we were using was pretty bad as compare with the program we used later to our story: pixton.com

Finally, we finished the work with the incredible help of our Star, which finished the comic by her own, and we exposed with the others in the class last Monday.

These day was one of the funniest days of exposition probably of the subject, because you can go and see others exposition in the order that you want, and as there were different types of works, so we could see different “pieces of art”, and the idea of each star be like the artist and explain what does it means its piece was very funny

For finish I will like to recommend you is one of Benjamin Stern about textbooks which I think is very interesting for yours http://smartblogs.com/education/2012/08/29/textbooks/, and for finish, my other recommendation ishttp://powerteachers15.blogspot.com.es/ this one is from my classmates, and I think they made a great work this week.