Schwarzenegger: Digital textbooks can save money, improve learning (Opinion piece)
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 10 Jun, 2009Spotted this morning on Educblogger's Google alerts:-
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, has written an opinion piece in which he asks why California's public school students are still learning "from instructional materials in formats made possible by Gutenberg's printing press" when they "get their information from the Internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to their cell phones."
He was writing about the digital textbooks initiative that California has just launched, starting with high school math and science books. He has issued a call for educators and content developers to submit digital texts for review - the plan is that everything is ready for Fall 2009.
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If California is to remain competitive in an increasingly global economy, this initial focus on math and science texts is critical.
And here's the story as told in the Guardian.