Tuesday, May 8, 2007

18. More laptops, less texbooks

eSchool News Online
http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6998

A Lousiana school is going completely paperless in an attempt to go to an all-digital curriculum. For some reason, I wasn't surprised when I read this, although I don't agree with dropping textbooks completely. Books were the beginning of education, and although times are changing simultaneously with technology, textbooks have the capability of offering precise, relevant, and legitimate information that students would spend hours searching for on the internet. Students must understand that there are many other helpful resources other than the internet. Would there be textbooks online for classes that students could download? If so, this would be more economical and less expensive in the long run.

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