As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create — and share — lessons
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Tony Baldasaro on 09 Aug 09Makes me wonder of textbooks inhibit collaboration by teachers.
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And they think of knowledge as infinite
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With California in dire straits, the governor hopes free textbooks could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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“I don’t believe that charters and vouchers are the threat to schools in Orange County,” he said. “What’s a threat is the digital world — that someone’s going to put together brilliant $200 courses in French, in geometry by the best teachers in the world.”
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“We believe that the world is going digital, but the jury’s still out on how this will evolve,” said Wendy Spiegel, a Pearson spokeswoman. “We’re agnostic, so we’ll provide digital, we’ll provide print, and we’ll see what our customers want.”
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At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers' science lectures. Down the road, at Cienega High School, students who own laptops can register for "digital sections" of several English, history and science classes. And throughout the district, a Beyond Textbooks initiative encourages teachers to create - and share - lessons that incorporate their own PowerPoint presentations, along with videos and research materials they find by sifting through reliable Internet sites.