School Swaps Books for Bytes

BBC:

A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils.

Empire High School is one of a band of schools which is taking computer technology out of the classroom and into students' bags.

Calvin Baker, chief superintendent of the Vail School district, told BBC World Service programme Go Digital that it has not signalled the total demise of text books

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 4, 2005 7:07 PM
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