The digital age in learning is here and textbooks will soon be a thing of the past. Schools are moving away from resources that take up space, waste paper, and fall apart after a few short years, such as the traditional textbook and workbooks. They are rejecting the old model of spending repeatedly spending millions on new editions that are not at all new and they are embracing digital media as a more engaging and cost-efficient way to teach our children. Book publishers will need to reinvent themselves or be left in the dust. Although “digital” resources are available, many publishers hold on to the old “textbook” mentality and merely convert their massive libraries into PDF or E-Book versions of the same old material rather than create new interactive experiences. Students today need much more than just a digital conversion of textbooks. Technology can make learning resources much more interactive than just text displayed digitally. Students, teachers, administrators, and lawmakers must demand a more technologically sophisticated product to reach our 21st century learners.
How do you feel about the digital conversion? Are publishers meeting the needs of your classroom and students?
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