Is the Textbook Dead? Far Too Early for Last Rites, ISTE Panel Suggests - Market Brief

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Summary:

"The title of the session on the ISTE conference’s second day was even more provocative than the headline of this post would suggest. “The Textbook Is Extinct! Now What?” was the posted description. In truth, the panel discussion at the sprawling tech conference was much less conclusive on that point, offering several reminders why printed texts may be likely to live with vigor in K-12 districts for years to come—despite several factors that are leading schools to become less reliant on them. Among those factors: the ubiquity of digital academic content, including open educational resources, or materials created on licenses that allow them to be freely shared and remixed. Some districts are encouraging teachers to tap into open resources in assembling their own content piece by piece. Some providers of open resources, meanwhile, are selling to districts full-scale curricula across entire grade spans. 

The panel on Monday included Ann-Marie Mapes, a state department of education official in Michigan, whose agency is developing a site to house open resources; Karen Greenleaf, the head of content for Google for Education; Adam Garry of Dell EMC (which sponsored the panel); and Jonathan Gregori, an instructional technology specialist with the Henrico County, Va., public schools...."

Link:

https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/textbook-dead-far-early-last-rites-iste-panel-suggests/

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Date tagged:

06/28/2018, 13:41

Date published:

06/28/2018, 09:41