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Digital text books open a new chapter

South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.

Senh: We're still kinda anti-computers in the U.S. There's the problem with the radiation emitted by wifi and staring at the screen for too long. Still, it's interesting that South Korea is going full stream ahead on this. It seems like it's the wave of the future. It makes sense since kids grow up with smartphones, tablet computers, and various electronic gadgets and devices. I would like to see what pediatricians think of this.

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Online textbooks moving into Washington area schools

Seventh-grade history teacher Mark Stevens bellowed a set of 21st-century instructions as students streamed into class one recent Friday at Fairfax County’s Glasgow Middle School. “Get a computer, please! Log on,” he said, “and go to your textbook.”

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