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Reading - the future
Considering the revolutionary influence of digital technology on most human endeavours, it’s surprising that the delivery of education has changed so little. Kids still sit in classrooms, in classes of 25, with one teacher, and these classes are still in big box buildings. Computers and telecommunications are mostly add-ons, to the extent they’re used at all.
So it’s interesting to note that McGraw-Hill has just launched its first all-digital textbook for the K-12 market. Of course, there remains the question of whether the content of this textbook will be better than the generally lousy textbooks inflicted on students in the past. However, the whole new world opened up by digital textbooks may mean that the big textbook publishers will lose their virtual monopoly - and that is always good news for consumers. We await developments with great interest.