An article published a couple weeks ago in the “Special Report on Education” by the New York Times’ Christopher F. Schuetze, shared some interesting news on shifting currents in blended technology in classrooms of the future.
Photo by Joshua Lott of The New York Times
I noted on twitter some months back of South Korea’s decision to switch to digital textbooks, a $2 billion dollar investment, beckoning a reconsideration of digital education worldwide and possibilities for the future. Within a couple of weeks of this news, Idaho began accepting bids from the private sector to provide a laptop to every teacher and high school student in their public education system. Today, it appears that California too is heeding the call for digital textbooks by legislating a 25 million dollar investment to create 50 new textbooks that would be “free in digital form or $20 in print”.