To think that this was the cutting-edge site that I joined when I got accepted to college. But then again, this was when having a giant Blackberry was cutting-edge as well…
- from Mashable
The latest scuttlebutt on Apple’s big education announcement next week: the company is venturing into textbooks.
An industry insider confirmed to the New York Times that Apple will, in fact, be partnering with textbook publishers. No new devices will be shown, the source says, but Apple will discuss their new digital textbook business next week.
Old and not-quite-so-radical news considering South Korea is trying to get all of its schools digital by 2015, but exciting nonetheless.
"Our classrooms may appear as we experienced them — a row of windows, a blackboard (OK, maybe they’re white now), inspirational posters. But the kids looking back from those same uncomfortable chairs are fundamentally different. They are like a Bronze Age tribe being asked to use stone axes. It’s time to put down the stone."
— Robert Romano in “Teachers: Embrace Technology or Students Will Leave You Behind”
(Source: Mashable)
