...Brown said there are no big savings incentives in making the transition from textbooks to digital techbooks. The school system would have to regularly pay for updates, and with technology changing so rapidly, there's no guarantee that technology purchased today would be relevant a year from now, she added...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
"...no guarantee that technology purchased today would be relevant a year from now..."
Gazette: Digital ‘techbooks' gain traction in schools, but MCPS not ready to ditch the paper trail
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Exemplified in Weast's to-be-presented-March 8 memo asking for more money for Tech Mod. Since he notes the Palm Pilot/Wireless investment was already dead two years ago, what has been used in the interim and how much is the new & improved going to cost?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/boe/meetings/agenda/2010-11/2011-0308/3.0%20Innovatons%20in%20Technology.pdf
p. 5 The handheld (PDA) devices by Palm currently used in schools were discontinued two years ago and will be replaced beginning this summer.
Agnes Jones-Trower