I wonder how many iBooks will fall victim to this juvenile prank.
P.S. I hope they strip all the games from them and don't allow installations of other apps.
1) It’s much easier to read a textbook than a laptop.
2) Not everything we will want to teach is available paperless.
3) What works in one US school district in Arizona will be more difficult and expensive to support in Monroe County where something like $800k median home prices force something like 33% teacher turnover.
Being one of the first to implement something this radical is going to have some false starts (mistakes) and be expensive to manage and support. Being strung out over a county of islands 100 miles apart doesn’t help.
But at least with our tax base multiplying every 3-4 years, and our “republican” commissioners unafraid to raise tax rates on top of that, we have the money. That’s about all I can think of (in Key Largo).
books cannot be edited for content after they are published. Biggest drawback of books. This should fix that.
I have been waiting for this for a long time. Textbooks are heavy, dreary, out-of-date, and generally worthless. The school will obviously have approve internet sites -- schools already have such lists of approved research sites.
What the internet provides is countless alternative approaches for any sublent, so that if any patricular presentation is boring or difficult, you can find the material presented another way.
Obviously there is a lot of crap to wade through, but life is like that.