Challenge to US schools: Embrace digital textbooks
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in U.S schools?
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski on Wednesday challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years. The Obama administration's push comes two weeks after Apple Inc. announced it would start to sell electronic versions of a few standard high-school books for use on its iPad tablet.
Digital books are viewed as a way to provide interactive learning, potentially save money and get updated material faster to students.
Digital learning environments have been embraced in five states. But many schools lack the broadband capacity or the computers or tablets to adopt the technology, and finding the money to go completely digital is difficult for many schools in tough economic times.
Tied to Wednesday's announcement at a digital town hall was the government's release of a 67-page "playbook" to schools that promotes the use of digital textbooks and offers guidance. The administration hopes that dollars spent on traditional textbooks can instead go toward making digital learning more feasible.
Going digital improves the learning process, and it is being rolled out at a faster pace in other countries such as South Korea, Genachowski said in an interview. Genachowski said he is hopeful it can be cost effective in the long run, especially as the price of digital tablets drops.
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