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Arizona School Won't Use Textbooks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the listen-to-the-hardware-manus-salivate dept.

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."

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  1. The Dog by Valiss · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    -Valiss
  2. meanwhile, in kansas... by avi33 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plans are underway to do away with all science books except for one.

  3. Re:What's wrong with textbooks? by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > 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.

  4. And with VoIP and cameras... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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