Two interesting data points recently about eBooks in schools.
UK trade publishers surveyed by Publishing Technology predict that 2012 will be the year that eBook revenue surpasses the "tipping point" for physical book revenue: http://blog.publishingtechnology.com/blogs/uk-trade-publishers-predict-2012-revenue-tipping-point-e-books/
Interesting, on the textbook side, they state "one in four UK academic publishers were already seeing 10% of their total book revenue coming from e-books in 2011, with double that predicting this would be the case in 2012".
Last week, Henrico County (VA) Public Schools uperintendent Patrick Russo said "We made a commitment pretty much we are not buying more textbooks." The district has had a 1:1 laptop program for approximately 10 years, and currently supplies laptops to over 25,000 high school and middle school students and almost 4,000 teachers through the county.
This is the blog site for the technology committee at the Lawrenceville School. We hope to use this site as a place for discussion about the role of technology in a Lawrenceville education, bringing in the voices of teachers, students, parents, alumni, and the world at large. We will also maintain a collection of related resources here.
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