TBH: I very rarely use my textbooks. I came into my job about two years after our school bought us all new textbooks. It was a really nice idea, and I'm thankful, but my coteachers only asked for a classroom set of books and they received one for each student. Awesome. Thanks. Now I have a cupboard full of really expensive, shiny, unopened books.
(insert awkward silence)
Can I trade them for 5 iPads, please?
(another awkward silence)
No? Well, damn.
Don't get me wrong, I like those textbooks as a resource, and I get some really good information from them. We use bits and pieces of them in all of our units, but I don't need to send one of those things home with each kid every day, and I wouldn't want to. Have you ever picked up one of those suckers? They are heavy.
I'm a big proponent of 1:1 schools. I wanna work in one. These devices could serve as students' planners, textbooks, notebooks, folders, extra resource tools, pencils (ask any middle school teacher; this is a major plus), and anything else. Yeah, yeah, it's expensive, but so are textbooks, notebooks, pencils, paper, ink, planners, etc. You might not think that these things add up to much, but I guarantee you that they cost more than an iPad for each student would. So... let's try it!
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