Apple is reported to be finalizing a new product, something along the lines of a tablet with a 10” screen. It’s quite interesting to me, the timing of this Schwarzenegger announcement.
Talk about a windfall...
In walks Apple with a color device that can handle the textbook needs of California’s kids, right on que.
If you think about it, the eTextbooks could actually be updated constantly rather than wait for the new printing, then purchase a new book.
PDF and the eBook Reader both allow notes to be inserted in documents, underlining and bookmarking to boot at least in the eBook Reader.
Apple may be onto it’s next amazing money maker.
Contracts for textbooks are already signed and MUST be paid for.
Ahnold can spout all he wants, but not every household has enough computers for each child to do their studying by computer.
This will only drive up the power that each household is required to use.
Then there is NObama’s new czar of the internet- not approved by Congress—no background shown, but chosen by NObama, who will have the power to act on his own and shut down the entire internet any time he decides there is a ‘National emergency”.
What does that do for the kids?
Text books for college cost $75-100. Not the same for elementary and high school.
As for the comments that “the same old way of teaching with books isn’t working” is just plain bogus.
Those of us who had textbooks are plenty smart-—in fact, we are the SUCCESSFUL people who NObama is trying to shut down and kill off, and the ones that are going to flee Kalifornia and New York over the heavy taxation.
Sorry, won’t work. The collection of knowledge will still have to be paid for, no matter how it is delivered.
I’ve wondered for years why text books are not on the internet. Each desk at school would have a PC that can access the material & then you could login from home to do your homework.
For that matter, have wondered why the university atmosphere hasn’t changed over the years. Professors could give their lectures via webcast, and students login to the textbooks - all online. Imagine how much less costly college would be if you didn’t have to build huge lecture halls, libraries or dorms.
Am I allowed to call him a freak?
Assuming the average textbook gets used 7 years, books cost CA taxpayers $60-$100 per student per year. Compare that with the $11k per student per year education spending in CA.
Cutting that essential part of education (reading textbooks) will save less than 1% of the education budget. Instead, Arnold and the legislature should cut the excessive education bureaucracy. What do the administrators above the level of school principal do, and what less would they accomplish with a 50% cut?
The governor is telling children to give up the schoolbooks and turn to digital lessons to help the state avoid bankruptcy...
Almost right. It's the teachers that need to be replaced with digital lessons.