Stage 2: Annotated Bibliography- College Textbook Forum

Annotated Bibliography- Remixing the Book Final

 

5 May 2019.

Summary:

This article analyzes a teacher’s point of view on how to get students to start not only annotating texts because they’re told to, but because they want to and understand that it is a useful tool in all reading, not just the English field. Writer Jordan Catapono utilizes a bullet system to explain each important factor that annotating brings. Most notably, he mentions that just simply interacting with the text is vastly important as far as understanding beyond the words on the page. Asking questions, highlighting and commenting on certain parts of text is a huge fundamental step to understanding the text.

I plan to use this article to point out the importance of annotation. For my product, English professors can utilize a grading system to monitor how much a student interacts with a certain text. Accompanying the grading system, students will learn how to annotate for all sorts of texts and be familiar with all of the ways it helps them, and I will pull instances from the Teach Hub article to back up the reasoning for why students should WANT to annotate, not because they have to. I plan to use some of the different methods for annotating that this article describes, such as symbols, which include highlighting, underlining or starring, and marginalia, where the margins of a physical text can be used for written notes of certain thoughts or ideas that occurred after reading a certain passage.

Summary:

This article points out the reasoning behind the drop in student usage of their class textbooks. The main culprit is the cost of textbooks and one of the factors is the access codes that accompany the physical textbook when you buy it. The code grants online access to your book from any device. This feature is supposed to make up for the increase in cost, but students have stuck to not even purchasing the code and using another friend’s code. The cost of the textbooks impacts how many students engage in the textbook readings, and overall participation from the readings to the lectures in class.

I plan to use actual statistics from CBS News that back up one of the main reasons that students refuse to engage in assigned reading. The cost factor will hopefully keep students at maximum of $60 per semester for the forum because all of their textbooks will be stored in there, which can be inferred to be 4-5 classes a semester. The added feature to all of the information being online in College Textbook Forum is the access to annotate the textbook with your fellow classmates and have an administrator monitor and check your comments for helpful teaching instruction.

Summary:

Reading books and longer articles is one of the best ways to improve your critical thinking skills, help understand more complex issues and help you learn to separate fact from fiction. This article points out a habit that teenagers have: screens. Teenagers and college students spend on a ton of time on phones, computers or television screens.

While this article points to the negative effects of teen digital media usage, I plan to use this article to point to another reason why students should have all of their online textbooks in a single area, where they can easily access them and even better understand them thanks to the annotation tool. The ability to access their assigned readings easily from an application on their phone or computer, and then the ability to be earn grades just by participating on the text, which helps not only your classmates but help your teacher structure his/her lectures based on conversations/issues that arose from a reading annotation.

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