Reply #2: I wonder how this will pan out. [View All]

[Dora]

Textbooks are pretty bad these days, so I'm glad to see that schools are attempting something different. However, the effect of using solely laptops and the internet as the medium for course content could be either good or bad.

If students are allowed to search the internet widely, are exposed to a variety of original and secondary sources, and are given some latitude in charting their own course of study, then this could possibly be a very fruitful enterprise.

But if students are limited to using online course curricula that's been designed by the same interests that are designing textbooks... Well, I wouldn't anticipate seeing much improvement in students' reasoning skills, literacy levels, or ability to create and support an argument.