iPads Over Textbooks
As I’ve become increasingly enamored of my iPad as a reading platform, I’ve also found it to be a very handy tool for collecting numerous reference texts I use for courses. Often I need to look up a specific command or the syntax of a CSS statement, and I love being able to carry around my tablet instead of 3 or 4 textbooks. It doesn’t take much in terms of extrapolation to see the advantage of having certain textbooks in electronic format. Here’s a link to an AP article discussing that very topic: school districts replacing multiple textbooks with iPads. The benefits? Information is more timely, there is the added opportunity for interactivity with content, and most pragmatically - it’s cheaper.
Now, things will really start getting interesting once Amazon
releases their tablet. But I’ve read that’s it’s based on a slower version of RIM’s Playbook which means it’ll be DOA for most consumers. Although with an expected price tag of $250 it might be enough of a trade off for some, and likely a real substitution of for school districts.
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