California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said, "It's nonsensical and expensive to look to traditional hard-bound books when information today is so readily available in electronic form." The Governor is looking to cut school text book costs and balance the state budget. He is also leveraging the internet and new ebook technology from Kindle, Sony, and Apple.
The challenge is for teachers and administrators to select new electronic information and blend it into the school curriculum. Many teachers have been running classes for years without text books. Education professionals need to create innovation eCurriculum based on existing electronic materials, secure new materials, and agree national/state programs that can be distributed to teachers electronicially.
Kids who lug 25 pounds of text books back and forth to school every day will be happy. If we do eCurriculum properly, everyone will win.
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This is great progress! I've been a fan of ebooks for years and this is a ringing endorsement for their convenience and usefulness. Ebooks are green and they save you some green, too. As a teacher, my go-to site for ebooks is http://www.dedicatedteacher.com, and I highly recommend it. Yay ebooks!
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