[LM_NET] Florida HS using Kindles as textbooks next year

[RICHARD DERVAN <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>]

Florida High School Plans To Replace Textbooks With eReaderss Next Year.

The St. Petersburg Times (6/2, Catalanello) reports that next year, 
Clearwater High School in Pinellas county, Florida, "will replace 
traditional textbooks with e-readers." Currently, "school officials are 
negotiating with Amazon Kindle to try to equip all 2,100 students with 
the 10-ounce devices this fall." Teachers have already been issued 
e-readers. "Principal Keith Mastorides said he was inspired to make the 
switch earlier this school year after campus surveys revealed a desire 
to integrate more technology with classroom instruction." While some 
schools nationwide "have used e-readers," most have done so "on a per 
class basis." According the school district's assistant superintendent 
for management information systems, John Just, "Kindle officials told 
the district that no other high school had embarked on" an effort like 
Clearwater's.

 
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/textbooks-ditched-at-clearwater-high-as-students-log-on-to-kindles/1099264


  Josephine Dervan, MLS -Adjunct Instructor
School of Communication and  Information
Rutgers University
dervan at optonline.net


He who has a library and a garden, wants for nothing- Cicero

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