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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. New Excuses! by kryogen1x · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Teacher: Tonight's assignment can be found on the main page of Slashdot.

    the next day...

    Teacher: Can I see your homework?

    Student: My dog ate- er, the article was a dupe, so I couldn't do it.

    Teacher: groan...

  2. Re:What's wrong with textbooks? by centauri · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Won't a bad teacher still be relatively bad given the same training as good teachers? Won't a new batch of teachers contain the same percentage (if not higher) of bad teachers? Even if we put money in to raising teacher salaries, hoping to attract better teachers away from other careers, won't we also attract a lot of bad teachers looking for a relatively easy buck?

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