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<p>That depends on how the technology is developed. If the reader had a touch screen… Obviously that would cost a lot more.</p>
<p>It’ll be cheaper for the state, lighter for students to carry, easily accessible, and with modern improvements in battery life, this would only get better. </p>
<p>Buying one may be sorta expensive, assuming Kindle price, but it’ll be an equivalent investment to a graphing calculator and several AP test costs. </p>
<p>I think its a wonderful idea.</p>
<p>Bad idea
- How will students get these? School issued laptops? Then you have to deal with laptop fees, technology issues, and a whole host of other issues.
- How would students access them at home? What’s to be done about students without computer and/or internet access at home?
- Does anyone actually like staring at a glaring computer screen to study?
- Would this mean more electronic assignments (i.e. submit them electronically)? Great, now we’ve added “Well I emailed it to you, I don’t know what happened” excuse to our repertoire.
- To what extent would paper still be used in the classroom (e.g. for notes, worksheets, etc.)? Honestly either go 100% electronic or not at all. It’s a major pain in the $#@ to have to juggle paper AND electronic notes/textbooks.
- AFAIK you can’t sell back an electronic textbook, and you can’t buy a “used” electronic textbook (meaning you’re forced to pay whatever the company charges)</p>
<p>I’m assuming it would be some type of purpose-made reader, rather than computer based. The latter would be awful; the former would take some getting used to but has clear benefits in addition to cost.</p>
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<p>I’m assuming this wouldn’t be an option.</p>
<p>[EDIT: there seems to be a complete lack of clarity on what this plan entails, and that’s why I think it will be a reality later rather than sooner, if at all.]</p>
<p>I hate reading huge blocks of text, the kind found in almost every textbook, on a monitor.</p>
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<p>Does such a reader even exist? Even if it did, it adds on the reader expense and possible repairs (you see how kids toss around crap in their backpacks/lockers, think it’ll be any different with this?)</p>
<p>I think that there are readers like that, and a large investment would increase the quality and affordability greatly. I’m not necessarily strongly for it though, like I said above. Your other concern was among the questions I posed above.</p>
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