The technology that is available in today’s world is amazing, teacher’s pull up a program on their computer and use a special pen on their whiteboard to run the program. Students …show more content…
In the article, Pictures Have Now Become a Necessity: The Use of Images in American History Textbooks, Masur states that “marketing experts understand that students today are visually aware in ways different from previous generations” (1409). This statement shows that students today have different tastes when it comes to visualizing a concept. FitzGerald discussed how the images she had in her textbook were images from the time period being discussed, meanwhile more current textbooks had images that were more modern and graphic. FitzGerald commented about a picture from a more current textbook “…ancient children with deformed bodies and blackened faces who stare stupidly out from the entrance to a mine” (788). Figure 1 below, shows a picture like the one FitzGerald described. She uses this statement as she explains how some images are presented in more current history books. Her concern with images such as the one described, is that it shows how unpleasant American history is coming across. For a younger class, images that are seemingly unpleasant should not be shown, but for older classes, showing more graphic images may be the best way to keep or get a student’s attention about the