An Arizona school district is dropping textbooks in its high school and going to laptops

This is interesting. I’m thinking it’s a lot more work for teachers, wouldn’t you? Perhaps I’m out of it, and perhaps there are textbook/curriculum companies that are keeping up with this (I know that many textbooks come with either supplementary materials or the textbook itself also on a CD). I don’t know how I’d adapt. It would unnerve me to look out at a classroom and see the lids of laptops looking at me instead of bored student faces.

I mean…won’t they all just be playing solitaire?

(When my students taking calculus started having to buy graphic calculators, I was initially impressed to see them all working so hard on their little machines. Until I realized they could play games with each other over the things. Which is what they were doing.)