by Marc Presnky, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Some colleges are already heading in this direction by requiring or handing out iPod Touches, iPads, Kindles, or Nooks, often preloaded with textbooks and other curricular materials, or by disallowing paper texts for online courses. But I suggest that it’s time to go much further: to actually ban nonelectronic books on campus. That would be a symbolic step toward a much better way of teaching and learning, in which all materials are fully integrated. It could involve a pledge similar to the one that language students and instructors at Middlebury Language Schools take to speak only the foreign languages in which they are immersed during the study program. In this bookless college, all reading—which would still, of course, be both required and encouraged—would be done electronically.
http://chronicle.com/article/In-the-21st-Century/129744/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
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