Where do you go when you want to learn something? A textbook?

So... there's always so much discussion on textbooks in this century. Are they really so last century? :) How can we stay current and fluid when referring to text that's written at a certain point in time is what I'd like to ask everyone? I find when teachers use textbooks, it often does not encourage best practices with instructional strategies, I've often seen it as a crutch... However, there are some powerful resources such as Being a Writer... which is more of a program with best instructional practices infused and research backing them. Back to those traditional paper textbooks... like science and history books. Who are the authors? Can we really trust their reliability and expertise? What's changed in our worlds that support the content? Can we sift through the biased perspectives in the this written word? And how is online resources different when asking these same questions. As a former classroom teacher, I actually never had that many textbooks... and usually if I used them it was as a reference AFTER I taught the content and Once schema was established...

I found this blog from Twitter PLN... so wanted to archive it to ponder on the whole resources used a bit later as well. What do you think about traditional textbooks? Would you want instructional funds spent on them for your classroom? Why not? Why? What's your reasoning? Where do you go today when you want to learn something? What tools and resources are important in your life today? What skills do we really need to teach students to be researchers online? Do we know how to research effectively and thoroughly? The skills needed today are very different. Many questions...