If you go off of what we discussed in class, a textbook's contents would be theoretically insignificant by the time the school received them from the printer.
In the age of free and nearly limitless knowledge, districts spending money on textbooks for subjects like social studies and science is a nauseating waste.
Districts should be utilizing 1:1 programs for the cost of ipads and computers and suddenly accurate, constantly updated information is always at their fingertips.
Replacing textbooks with technology also opens the door for phenomenon teaching which allows students to explore critical thinking, problem solving and moves them away from relying on essentially yes or no answers.
If districts move towards even digital textbooks, students can easily question and "fact-check" the information in their texts and lesson plans can be created for students to be critical thinkers about the information they digest and thus turn them into researchers.
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