Eventually stories like this will become myriad and boring. It will no longer be news that school districts have embraced all-electronic media. The cost savings are significant, and electronic media are easier to use and more convenient (sure, it's easier to simply read a book, but much harder to actually work with it, refer to it, look stuff up, forward readings, etc.). “All the kids carry around laptops, but it’s not the device that is the change,†Glass said after visiting the plugged-in classrooms in January. “The most encouraging thing I saw at Van Meter was that they told me that when they first got the devices, it was kind of ‘paper down wire,’ taking the tools on paper and putting them online. Now, after two years of exploring the capacity of the devices, the kids and teachers are learning and evolving in their own knowledge of how powerful new technology can be.†Via Edudemic.
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