The Case Against Textbooks via Will Richardson
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The Case Against Textbooks via Will Richardson
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The savings potential is enormous. Last year we we spent over $26,000 on
print text books — that is a half a teachers salary!
The first challenge is getting past the need (of teachers, students and
parents) to have that resource sitting on the desk or kitchen table to
refer to while working.
The second challenge is availability to all students of that online
connection — computers in every classroom and home, laptops, handhelds
…?
We are doing a great job technologically in this division but there are
so many new things or directions we could be using to enhance learning
that we aren’t even aware of.
Bob Symenuk
The issue of access is really the key. There’s a high school in Arizona that’s chosen laptops over textbooks. They claim that over the four years of high school they will nearly recover their costs.