Leading learning back to the ol’ tablet
By Idealog,
Soon kids in South Korea will walk free from book-laden backpacks, with digital textbooks set to lighten the load on their backs. Last week the country announced its plan to spend US$2 (NZ$2,4) billion on the development of digital textbooks with the aim to replace paper in all schools by 2015.
Apart from the obvious orthopaedic advantages, the improvements to the education system will be significant. Students will be able to access learning material from a cloud-based system, swapping traditional content for multimedia on school-supplied tablets.
And don’t think they’ll be skipping school in South Korea – the system will enable students to catch up on work remotely, so if they miss a maths lesson, the lesson content will still be accessible on the system from home.
Homework will be completed on the tablets too, making “my dog ate it” an excuse of the past.
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tinakarori
Michael Moore-Jones, a 16-yr old student in Wellington, has set himself up in exactly this way: an iPad with all his textbooks loaded as PDFs, plus he uses Evernote to keep class notes. See his latest blog entry on “Blended Schools” in his website http://theydontteachyouthisinschool.com
Also refer to his 17/05/11 blog on his paperless school setup. Michael is a smart, thoughtful yound man, and I follow his blog with great interest and respect.
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