E-Learning Tools To Replace School Textbooks
By Anna Johnson on March 16th, 2010Six out of ten (65 percent) teachers and school administrators from across the U.S. believe that interactive and e-learning tools will soon replace the printed textbook.
Based on a survey of teachers and school administrators conducted at the ASCD Critical Transformation Show & Conference in early March, the findings echo those from a recent report by the Gates Foundation and Scholastic in which only 12 percent of teachers see improved academic achievement through traditional textbooks.
School administrators are more bullish on interactive and online educational tools, with 73 percent of those at the school and district level saying the textbook is becoming a thing of the past. Among teachers, the proportion expecting the demise of the textbook was less, at 53 percent of teachers.
Despite the consensus that e-learning tools will replace textbooks, the vast majority of teachers and school administrators (70 percent) regard their schools and districts as only ‘somewhat prepared’ for necessary adaptations to the classroom.
