For years, schools have pondered how to get more computers into the classroom. Now, students walk into the schools with powerful computers in their pockets and are told to turn them off.
Schwarzenegger said he wants to get rid of big heavy textbooks and replace them with digital (eBookS?) – will save $200-Million. My guess is that the threatened textbook publishing indu$$try will react strongly.
We tried to break through that wall when I worked at eBooks and it was a real Maginot Line of legal defense and interlocking school district contract enfilades they had built – so maybe blitzkrieg WILL work…
June 10th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Schwarzenegger said he wants to get rid of big heavy textbooks and replace them with digital (eBookS?) – will save $200-Million. My guess is that the threatened textbook publishing indu$$try will react strongly.
We tried to break through that wall when I worked at eBooks and it was a real Maginot Line of legal defense and interlocking school district contract enfilades they had built – so maybe blitzkrieg WILL work…