Comments on: Some heartfelt thoughts about textbooks, laptops, and digital curriculum http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/08/14/some-heartfelt-thoughts-about-textbooks-laptops-and-digital-curriculum/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Paughnee http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/08/14/some-heartfelt-thoughts-about-textbooks-laptops-and-digital-curriculum/comment-page-1/#comment-39759 Paughnee Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:21:37 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/08/14/some-heartfelt-thoughts-about-textbooks-laptops-and-digital-curriculum/#comment-39759 I'm happy to say that the high school where my husband teaches, and where our daughter is a Junior, is no longer issuing textbooks. Each teacher has a classroom set of books and the textbooks are available online for students to use at home. (Books are also available for students to check out overnight. . . unfortunately, the school isn't providing each student with a laptop.) In addition to the money that is saved by not buying copies of textbooks for every student, the school has just eliminated one of the biggest beginning- and end-of-year hassles (collecting and accounting for all the textbooks). Plus, the school is not issuing lockers to students since they won't have to carry or store textbooks. The campus is so spread out that most students carried all their books with them anyway. So, lots of benefits all the way around. I’m happy to say that the high school where my husband teaches, and where our
daughter is a Junior, is no longer issuing textbooks. Each teacher has a classroom set
of books and the textbooks are available online for students to use at home. (Books are
also available for students to check out overnight. . . unfortunately, the school isn’t
providing each student with a laptop.)

In addition to the money that is saved by not buying copies of textbooks for every student,
the school has just eliminated one of the biggest beginning- and end-of-year hassles
(collecting and accounting for all the textbooks). Plus, the school is not issuing lockers
to students since they won’t have to carry or store textbooks. The campus is so spread
out that most students carried all their books with them anyway. So, lots of benefits
all the way around.

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