http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
August 9, 2009
As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks Are History
By TAMAR LEWIN
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.
Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it
will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted
altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational
games, videos and projects on the Web.
William L. Katzenberger
Media Specialist and Technology Coordinator
Dodge Park Elementary School
3401 Hubbard Rd
Landover, MD 20785
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