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Originally Posted by meeera
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?
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Sounds like fiction has become fact. In Wesley Allison's book "His Robot Girlfriend" his main character is a history teacher whose class uses electronic devices i.e. text tee's to study their lessons.