Anybody ever watch how a kid treats a textbook? Stuffed into the backpack and thrown around with abandon? I don’t see electronic books, with the attendant costs, as a reasonable alternative in a public school.
“I don’t see electronic books, with the attendant costs, as a reasonable alternative in a public school.”
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What costs? They already have the computers. Any addition to the number of computers would be offset by the very high price of text books and shipping.
Have you priced a textbook recently?
I have a personal library, my wife and I probably have 400 books on the shelf. But I seldom use them now. This beast we are using has replaced them.
Does that make it necessary to apply personal filters to content I find? Yes, of course.
This media only works with interaction.
Now the problem is not source, but trusted source.