It's 2011 and students are
still lugging around back-breaking tonnages of dead-tree textbooks?
The technology in the Kindle DX is sophisticated enough to start taking a bite out of charts, graphs, diagrams and illustrations. It wouldn't take rocket science to push the technology envelope a
little bit and get usable e-readers with color and even moving pictures into the hands of students.
Oh, wait, that's called the iPad.
You'd think Jobs might take a stand on the issue and release 10,000 iPads at cost to some accredited institution to test drive. This is, after all, the future of American education we're talking about, and didn't Obama say something about wanting more graduates by 2020. . . .?
If you want someone to lay blame at the feet of, try the massive textbook industry that continually scams poor (literally) students. Change two paragraphs and you've got a "new edition" which is of course required for your class. The professors can't help but collude because of copyright laws.
It's pretty sickening.
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Andrew R Long
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