Textbooks anyone? - week 3
I have long marveled at how heavy the student's bookbags have become, especially if the book bags contain every book that the student will need during the course of a day. I cannot seem to understand why this has not prompted our school district to strive further to acquire e-books for use in the classroom instead. What the students could do is the classroom can keep a classroom set of books in the school and the students would only have to sign out a copy of the textbook on cd. It is quite evident that when the weight of a book bag exceeds the weight of the student, someone is going to get hurt, if not now, then down the road several years. It is hard to understand why the school board has not moved towards some form of relief for the students in the high school where I work... It is not for lack of our input.
Posted by MarianneLingmanMaria at 7:46 PM
1 comments:
Lynne Koles said...
Marianne, I have also been excited at the possibilities for student use of digital textbooks. Wouldn't it be great if our students could have iPads instead of textbooks? From what my colleagues here at the New Tech conference are saying, the iPad would be ideal for student use because it is touch screen, graphics are excellent and hundreds of apps are already out for use on it. We could be engaging our students with an inexpensive tool that would meet most of their school work needs! I'm thinking grant writing time is here! What do you think?
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