As my job involves quality assurance, I make it a point to verify the authenticity of reference sources, which content developers use when developing lesson modules.
Oddly enough, it is not uncommon to come across factual and conceptual mistakes in K-12 textbooks. Hence, editors and other professionals involved in quality assurance search for authentic reference materials.
Oddly enough, it is not uncommon to come across factual and conceptual mistakes in K-12 textbooks. Hence, editors and other professionals involved in quality assurance search for authentic reference materials.
A few weeks back, as part of my work in this direction, I came across a beautiful depiction of Earth's magnetic field in a New Zealand based web source. The picture was colourful but contained an obvious blunder. Earth's magnetic poles are labelled wrongly. Intead of showing the Earth's South magnetic pole being near the Geographic North pole and vice versa, the illustration shows the poles the other way round. As the mistake was uncorrected, when I revisited the webpage on last Sunday, I wrote to them using an option given on the same webpage, requesting them to correct the mistake by explaining as to why the depiction was wrong. I havn't yet received a reply.
I am sure that you will agree with my point of view that any appropriate learning material presented to students should be authentic, whatever be the source.
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