Textbooks

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 * [|Yahoo! News - Texas board adopts new social studies curriculum - Yahoo! News]
 * [|Washington Post - Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes]
 * [|New York Times - Texas Conservatives Win Vote on Textbook Standards]

Here are some links for our workshop. Do we need to make a separate page for the workshop? [] [] [] []

there are TONS of links about this. i was thinking this one example could be a catalyst for small group discussion in our conference, about who should be in charge of deciding what students learn.

Then, Ali I believe you had an idea about how to lead the workshop as far as: ways to include standards in your everyday teaching? I think perhaps we should discuss some more exactly which way we want our workshop to go.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100521/ap_on_re_us/us_texas_schools_social_studies

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So, a ~1 minute claymation on textbook selection...are we still thinking that a joke about Texas is the way to go? -Ali hey guys, added lots of ideas, don't have to use any of them, perhaps ideas to simplify?!!? thx jess!

Claymation Here || intro (words/questions) re: how states pick what to include as standards/what to teach || brief pictures about false "factual" information once taught (eg world is flat, etc)? || whose job is it to determine what to put in textbooks? what knowledge is worth teaching? || who does decide? what role do special interests play? || means publishers cater to them || who is to say texans are right or wrong? || don't mess with texas || texas jokes eg of course creationism is the only thing to teach || thomas jefferson? who's that? || more texas jokes || A Joke About Texas somewhere in here? || contrast with other beliefs? just go to extremes to make the point.... || try to show how one perspective is just one perspective, yet we have to teach "facts" || what is knowledge || What is fallout of Texas decision for rest of us? picture of texans invading US or texas spreading to take over US?!! || A comment about how national standardized education could be a positive change, but do we want Texas to be the model?! || Some of the recent issues with Texas textbook changes || End Claymation Here ||
 * Start
 * Clay map/shape of texas || Population of Texas
 * more texas jokes
 * gets to the heart of what is "worth" teaching/

I think that we have a good backbone here...should be fun on Monday. See ya then! -Ali