Here you have a ... journalist!!

Hi, I’m Marina Garcerán and I have adopted the role of the JOURNALIST for the task of this week.

A journalist have to tell the history of the group, has to explain the dynamic of the weekly work and recover evidences, like pictures, audio... And this is what I’m going to do now.

The textbook is a classic resource that has been configured as a crucial part of curriculum, in almost every country around the world. The textbook is only another resource, but behind the politics related to this there are many interests and a concrete way to understand education and teaching. Because of this, this week we have explored The Dark side of Textbooks.

Firstly, all group members read several documents which helped us to understand better the task.

After reading these documents, we understood, for example, that a textbook can be a guide for a teacher to teach children, but the real purpose is not that children memorize the entire book during the course, if not learn some new concepts that will help them in their future.

Besides, it is important to know that we can make children learn with a lot of resources, apart from the textbooks.

After that, each group had to do a presentation against the use of textbooks as basic resources in a classroom. For the presentation we could decide to use one of these formats: a comic, an infographic, a Fable (with a moral), a Twitter timeline or a series of TV advertisements.

C’mon tutankamon chose the last option and we made three TV advertisements, which were entiled: “And me, I am not important?”, “Stop her!” and "Your back hurts you, don´t worry you have to carry on kilos of books in your backpack".  

The last was made in the School Primo de Rivera, in Callosa (Alicante), with 6^th of Primary students.

Then, the stars of this week, María and Miriam, presented these TV advertisements to the rest of the class the last Thursday.  

Here you have some evidences that can prove it :)

Finally, the rest of the groups presented us their presentations against textbooks. All of them were too interesting and had been worked a lot.

I specially liked the presentation of “Hide and Seek”. You can see my commentary by clicking this link: 

Besides, I have also explored the Blog recomended by Mercerdes Ruiz in Twitter (@londones). You can see my commentary by clicking here: