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  1. 03-01-2010, 09:50 PM #1
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    Is Macmillan's New Textbook Software Progressive-or Dangerou

    Guest blog: Is Macmillan's new textbook software progressive – or dangerous?

    Dynamic Books software from Macmillan will allow professors to reorganize, update, revise, and even delete sections from online textbooks.

    By Rebekah Denn / February 23, 2010

    It seems like a good thing for professors to argue points in a textbook, to debate or disagree with what’s printed. But is it OK for them to rewrite the book instead?

    That’s what could happen with new software from major publisher Macmillan, The New York Times reported earlier this week.

    Here’s how the Times described the “DynamicBooksâ€
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    Oh no! This is not good, as the quality of today's professors is totally progressive and liberal.
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  3. 03-01-2010, 10:26 PM #3
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    rewriting books and editing history and facts?

    isn't that what those guys in the novel 1984 used to do with all their spare time?
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  4. 03-01-2010, 11:17 PM #4
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    Revisionist history, with people who hate America, now in control of what goes in to each student's mind.

    Teach what you want, leave the rest out.

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    This software and these teacher should be deleted, reorganised, updated, and revised. Lets see how they like it.
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