Are textbooks becoming a thing of the past? It appears to be so at one Florida high school, which will be the first in the nation to replace traditional textbooks with e-readers for all 2,100 students. A story by Rebecca Catalanello in the June 2 St. Petersburg Times reports that while schools elsewhere have used e-readers on a per-class basis, Clearwater is the first to attempt a shift of this magnitude.
School officials are currently negotiating with Amazon for the Kindle, a 10-oz. e-reader that can store electronic textbooks, newspapers, magazines, and books in text and audio formats.The device also allows users to get word definitions, bookmark pages, highlight text, type notes they might otherwise scribble in the margins of a hard-bound book, and have limited Internet access. One hundred teachers have already received their Kindles. Read more at tampabay.com
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