By Tanya Roscorla, Converge
One night, California Education Secretary Bonnie Reiss watched the “Minute to Win It” show with her 5- and 7-year-old nephews. The contestants obviously did their homework: They watched YouTube videos to learn the techniques they needed to pass 60-second challenges involving household items. California education leaders are determining how to use digital content to help students learn, both at the K-12 and the university level. In 32 courses this fall, five campuses in the California State University (CSU) system started a digital content licensing pilot that takes the place of textbooks. And in four school districts, a pilot program replaced the algebra textbooks of 400 eighth-graders with iPads containing Algebra I applications.
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