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Calif. district pushes digital-text initiative forward
- 02-11-2011
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By Katie Ash/Education Week
Jackie Davis asked his California middle school students to tackle the sample math problem in their digital textbooks during a recent lesson about solving a system of linear equations. The teacher’s request prompted the students to turn to their iPads, scroll to the problem in the e-textbook, and begin tapping notes on the screen. At Amelia Earhart Middle School, where Davis teaches, two classes of Algebra 1 students are now accessing textbooks on iPads through a partnership with the educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is one of hundreds of teachers in the 44,000-student Riverside Unified School District, located 60 miles east of Los Angeles, who are using digital devices to provide content to students through e-textbooks. (more...)
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