Beyond Digital Content Reinventing the Textbook

The Future of Textbooks Presented by David Warlick http://davidwarlick.com/

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What is the purpose of education? Top 35 words “Race to the Top” press release June 14, 2009

What is the purpose of education? Top 25 words in a listing of education’ese phrases

What is the purpose of education?
New Conditions
New Generation of Learners
New Information Landscape
A Future we can No Longer Describe

New Purpose
Prepare our children for their future
..by facilitating learning experiences that:
Employ learner-relevant pedagogies,
Harness the qualities of a new information environment, and
Instill in all children a learning lifestyle.

What's a textbook for?
Content delivery
Curriculum consistency
Curriculum control
Curriculum/Content confidence

What's a textbook for? Control Learning? Well, “Yes” But, “Who?”

What's a textbook for? Control Learning?
Society
Government
Institutional (school)
Teacher
Learner

Qualities of the ’Native' Information Experience

Qualities of the ’Native' Information Experience
Responsive
Provokes conversation
Fueled by questions
Built on & through identity
Rewarded with currency
Demands personal investment
Guided by safely made mistakes

Textbook continuum Gutenburg Cyberspace Or Cyborg

Published print
Enabled
Classify
Catalog
Standardize

Print/digital Hybrid
Textbooks
Supplemental Print
Supplemental Digital
Opportunities for more interactive learning experiences

PDF
Advantages
Light weight
Less impact on environment
More easily updated
Potentially cheaper
TB Industry shifts workforce from production to content creation & maintenance

Social Tools & Interactive Applications
Web 2.0
Multimedia
Games
Less about teaching & assessment and more about learning experience

Platforms

Platform 1.0
Learning management system (LMS)

Platform 1.0
Apps
Wired Magazine
wired

Platform 1.0
Apps
Wired Magazine
Cool Hunting

Platform 1.0
Apps
Wired Magazine
Cool Hunting
Dynamic Content
Flipboard

Platform 2.0
Hybrid
LMS
Social Network
ePortfolio

Content Source
Teacher
Local Teacher community
Open source community
Captured on-going conversations
Publishing industry

Content Format
Text
Multimedia
Data
Interactive tutorials
Games

Group collaboratives
Flexbooks
Flexbooks

Platform Extreme
Learner writes his own textbook
Finds content,
Related to goals,
Corresponding to learning styles, and
To learner’s power interests

Learner as Author
Connects content to other learners
Connects to the content of other learners
Connections
Can be learner directed connections
Can be agent suggested connections

Textbook goes with the learner
Continues to add new content
Delete obsolete content
Edits content, re-coloring it based on new learning & new power interests

No predicting
Form?
We don’t know what the next Facebook or Twitter will be
Function?
We do not know whether education will continue down the narrowing path of the past decade, or become more “open”
Source
Textbook Industry?
Open Source Industry?

Think about Online Video Games

The Future of Textbooks Presented by David Warlick http://davidwarlick.com/

Beyond Digital Content Reinventing the Textbook

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