California's governor, Arnold S. is challenging the state's school districts to start thinking and using ebooks, digital books or flexbooks. The state is bleeding under this long recession. Using digital books will save a lot of money. But will all children be able to use digital books? Do they have access to computer. Many educators are saying it is a lofty goal that will take time to happen. What this will do is that the educational divide is going to be larger. Rich kids who can afford computers and Internet connections will be ahead of the class.
At a high school near you, many students will have access to many English and Science textbooks. Many college students have already had this access for many classes. Now many superintendents are encouraging some teachers to develop lesson plans through power print presentations.
According the NYtimes, there is a future in digital textbooks. "Pearson, the nation’s largest one, submitted four texts in California, all of them already available online, as free supplements to their texts.
“We believe that the world is going digital, but the jury’s still out on how this will evolve,” said Wendy Spiegel, a Pearson spokeswoman. “We’re agnostic, so we’ll provide digital, we’ll provide print, and we’ll see what our customers want.”
Most of the digital texts submitted for review in California came from a nonprofit group, CK-12 Foundation, that develops free “flexbooks” that can be customized to meet state standards, and added to by teachers. Its physics flexbook, a Web-based, open-content compilation, was introduced in Virginia in March."
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