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Riverside Unified in vanguard of digital texts
- 12-02-2009
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drew national attention last May when he proclaimed a free digital textbook initiative. He caught a second wave of publicity three months later when he declared that 10 of the vetted digital science and math texts were well aligned to state standards and were ready for downloading. Since then, it’s been pretty much of a dud, which is not all that surprising. August was too close to the opening of school for most schools to switch textbooks – even for free. And the cash-strapped state was offering no incentives and, more importantly, no training for teachers on how to integrate them into the classroom. But one district, Riverside Unified, has risen to the challenge, and its director of K-12 instructional technology says Riverside wants to be in the vanguard of an online movement that inevitably will radically change the way textbooks are priced, presented and taught. (more...)
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