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By Zachary Schuler, chief executive of!cer, Cal Net Technology Group
Just like everything else in the education system, the price
of textbooks these days are skyrocketing, and buy-back is
usually less than 50%. That’s if your lucky. With the iPad
taking over the book publishing industry and standardizing
prices, the cost of “e-textbooks” are likely to be much less
than their old-fashioned, hardcover counterparts.
With e-books, resale value is non-existent, so students
could hold on to their textbooks for all of eternity. No
more visiting the bookstore and selling that $160 math
book for a measly $20. The cost of textbooks is generally
$500 a semester for college students, and about the same
for a year for private high school students. So school
administrators or individual students might as well spend
that money on an iPad, and keep everything in one
condensed, organized device.
This system would benefit both college and high school environments, and could even go as far as replacing
the backpack entirely. Can you imagine a world where high-schoolers no longer have to lug around oversized
backpacks with thick, heavy textbooks? Not only will their attitudes straighten up, but their posture will too!
Having all your textbooks condensed to the size of an iPad device is like carrying a giant wealth of knowledge in
a single book.
The iPad is not only a passive reading device, either. Children in grades K through 6 can proactively make
use of educational software applications with an easy-to-use touch interface. In the same way that popular
television programs for kids (such as Dora the Explorer) have interactive online counterparts, the iPad could
integrate a child’s education into an interactive, lifelike environment. The quality of the