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meeera · 03-17-2017, 09:11 PM

My kid is 14 and in high school in Australia. No print textbooks are required at his school, which I love because it reduces the weight of the backpack and my kid only has to remember to bring a single item back and forth from school. Electronic textbooks are provided to all students. All the texts have print versions available to buy for parents who really prefer print (and there's a reasonable secondhand market). All students bring their own iPad or small laptop to classes.

I do generally buy the English class novels/books in print if we don't already have them at home, particularly if it's small like Romeo & Juliet (a recent example).

The studies on retention were really poor quality. They were done on small samples, on atypical reading situations, and most importantly were done using subjects who were not at all accustomed to electronic reading of any kind.

Multimedia learning really does work, when done decently well. Maybe go take a few courses yourself at Khan Academy to check it out?

03-17-2017, 09:11 PM	#5
meeera Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,830 Karma: 68407974 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, iPadMini4, iPad4, MBP; support other Kobo/Kindles	My kid is 14 and in high school in Australia. No print textbooks are required at his school, which I love because it reduces the weight of the backpack and my kid only has to remember to bring a single item back and forth from school. Electronic textbooks are provided to all students. All the texts have print versions available to buy for parents who really prefer print (and there's a reasonable secondhand market). All students bring their own iPad or small laptop to classes. I do generally buy the English class novels/books in print if we don't already have them at home, particularly if it's small like Romeo & Juliet (a recent example). The studies on retention were really poor quality. They were done on small samples, on atypical reading situations, and most importantly were done using subjects who were not at all accustomed to electronic reading of any kind. Multimedia learning really does work, when done decently well. Maybe go take a few courses yourself at Khan Academy to check it out? Last edited by meeera; 03-17-2017 at 09:14 PM.