Arizona School Won't Use Textbooks

Some Guy writes "A high school in Vail will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans."

The Dog

[Valiss]

So now, when someone says, "The dog ate my homework," they'll actually mean, "The Dog virus ate my homework!"

Their school motto:

[Anonymous Coward]

"Staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late"

Costs are brutal!

[darth_MALL]

Ruining a laptop is so much more expensive than wrecking a textbook. Plus how are you supposed to draw mustaches and balls on all the pictures for the next class to see?

meanwhile, in kansas...

[avi33]

Plans are underway to do away with all science books except for one [amazon.com].

More wifi for me!

[activesynapsis]

I live a mile away from that school, now I'll have all the wifi access I can handle.

Re:What's wrong with textbooks?

[Tackhead]

> All the money is being spent on "tech in schools". At the end of the day, a bad teacher will be bad given a set of textbooks or laptops. Imo, this money should go towards more teacher training/more teachers.

The previous slashdot post contains material on teaching. Teaching is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of knowledge. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.

Look out for...

[hackstraw]

TPAA!

Textbook Publishers Association of America. Yeah, I made it up, but we simply cannot allow for progress against an old business models. Trifles innovation, hurts the authors, and leaves the suits worried.

And with VoIP and cameras...

[Anonymous Coward]

they can outsource the teaching jobs to India. Imagine how much cheaper those teachers are! We finally can pay the administrators what they deserve!

Re:My deepest fear: text changing on the fly

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe they can improve spelling education!

Re:What's wrong with textbooks?

[shmlco]

...i'm strongly concidering [sic] quitting a high-paying job at a major defense firm...

What firm? It sounds as if they need qualified people...

Didn't you know?

[roman_mir]

Academia teaches the evil of singularity to human cubics - born of opposites. [timecube.com] - Teachers are evil and this Time Cube guy bets USD10,000 he knows the truth.

Re:If you had asked me

[SA Stevens]

I regularily write five to ten page research papers from the comfort of my dorm room. ...without even needing to touch a keyboard, with just flicks of the mouse!