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Subject: Re: Laptops and textbooks
Posted By: William L. Rukeyser
Date: February 22, 1999 at 13:50:55
In Response to: Laptops and textbooks - posted by Dwight Raulston on February 21, 1999 at 11:22:10

> The amount of passion stirred by this debate is indicative of healthy interest, but how open-minded are people being? Some things--searching and hyperlinking--laptops clearly do better. Some things (at least until prices drop and technology improves--paper (i.e., texts) clearly do better--cost for paperback books, ease of making short marginal notes, portability to beach to do English reading, for instance, without worrying about destroying a $1500 laptop!

> Why is this being cast by so many as an either/or situation?

We're only discussing this as an either/or question because that's the way is was cast by the Texas porposal.
I agree... in a universe as complex as K-12 education... there are too many different problems to have a simple solution or a cure all.
Faith in laptops to solve all our woes is simply that: faith.
Hover, this is education, not theology.

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* Comments: > > The amount of passion stirred by this debate is indicative of healthy interest, but how open-minded are people being? Some things--searching and hyperlinking--laptops clearly do better. Some things (at least until prices drop and technology improves--paper (i.e., texts) clearly do better--cost for paperback books, ease of making short marginal notes, portability to beach to do English reading, for instance, without worrying about destroying a $1500 laptop! > > Why is this being cast by so many as an either/or situation? > > We're only discussing this as an either/or question because that's the way is was cast by the Texas porposal. > I agree... in a universe as complex as K-12 education... there are too many different problems to have a simple solution or a cure all. > Faith in laptops to solve all our woes is simply that: faith. > Hover, this is education, not theology.