Bye Bye Text Books
August 20th, 2009 | by geo |
I met the CEO of School Town yesterday, and got to learn a bit about their vision of eliminating all text books in K-12 schools, and providing learning tools 100% over the web.
I must say, it’s a no brainer. The Internet is so underutilized in K-12 school systems. With School Town’s web-based platform, students can learn interactivity with the teacher and other students, use collaboration tools to share items, link to other sources on the web, and most of the other great things we’ve come to love in SaaS software. Not to mention the millions in savings by eliminating text books. Chicago Public Schools has something around a $30M budget for text books.
I’m believe within the next 10 years text books will go the way of the dinosaur, which doesn’t upset me.
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One Response to “Bye Bye Text Books”
By Wifey on Aug 28, 2009 | Reply
Nearly every textbook currently uses an online version. The problem is that many schools don’t have the funding to provide every classroom with 30 computers so that the students can access the book at any given moment. And, what do you do when they don’t work? While this would work in an art or Spanish class, this would present a big problem for those teachers who use textbooks each and every day.