TampaBay.com
A high school in Clearwater, Fla., is preparing to replace textbooks with e-readers for all of its 2,100 students. School officials have not settled on a vendor, but the St. Petersburg Times (which is owned by Poynter) reports they are hoping to purchase Amazon Kindles.
“Principal Keith Mastorides said he was inspired to make the switch earlier this school year after campus surveys revealed a desire to integrate more technology with classroom instruction. ‘When you think about students today, three-quarters of their day is spent on some kind of electronic device,’ Mastorides said. ‘We’re just looking at textbooks a little differently.’ “
Rebecca Catalanello reports that the school believes it might be the first high school to entirely replace their textbooks but have been unable to confirm that fact. Several colleges, including Princeton, have experimented with Kindles and found them to be good as e-readers but not up to the task of fully replacing textbooks in an educational environment.
