Task 5: Translator

Hey there!
I'm Natalia and today, in the Translator part of this task, I would like to highlight several key 
concepts that in my opinion are crucial for this theme. First of all, we need to know what a  
textbook is. We could consider it a book used for the study of a particular subject, that can be 
also used to learn some contents and methods that can be useful for the specific subject (as I
have previously said). It causes lots of discrepancies related to how useful and important they are.
We could also stand out the term comfort, due to the fact that teachers feel really comfortable 
and secure with textbooks. They don’t have to do a really hard work when they use them and 
only guide the classes with the contents that are treated in them, without using a critical view of
the contents.
Related to some characteristics of textbooks, we could stand out the concept of publishers. 
These publishers have a great relationship with textbooks because they are the people who are in 
charged of their publication. As they obtain the benefits, when they are not as high as they would
like, they apply some strategies such as publishing new editions of textbooks. This example and
the previous one (comfort) are crucial to understand which is the dark side of textbooks.
For this specifically task, we have made an info-graphic, which can be considered as a graphic 
method to represent some type of knowledge that allows you to identify this information quickly.
Finally, we could highlight the term curriculum, which is the general educational project where 
the objectives of school education are specified. In the curriculum we can find what, when and
how to teach something. It is very related to textbooks, because in these books, teachers see which 
are the contents that are needed to be taught.
See you soon!

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