It's a new chapter
Monique Ebrington,
Maroondah Weekly,
Feb 14, 2011
It's hard to emphasize how quickly this is going to spread now that people have actually realized that you can read a book in digital form. I don't know why it took the arrival of the iPad - perhaps the devices had to be smaller than a book - but now there's no turning back. This story will be typical: "schoolbags are a thing of the past for Ringwood Secondary College students, with technology replacing textbooks. The school's 240 year 7 students began using Apple's iPad in classes when school returned last week." And if you don't like the iPad, which can create some issues for students, perhaps the new Acer Adnroid tablet, or any of the other much cheaper and much more versitile tablets available soon. A couple of years from now, the print textbook market will have collapsed completely. Yes, that quickly. Via Helge Sherlund. See also From Notepads to iPads. And see also Tablet computers to make education more interactive.
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