Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Textbooks: RIP?

A school system in Vail, Arizona is replacing textbooks with laptops. As a bookworm and textbook fetishist, all I can say is "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

More seriously, I don't see this working as well as they think it will. Want to bet that half of those laptops come back at the end of the year full of porn and loaded with viruses? (If they even come back at all.) And those smart whiteboard things are sooooo going to break. And the teachers won't know what the hell to do with them.

It's also incredibly sad and humorous that textbooks "frustrate" kids like Todd and find them a "time warp." Jesus Christ in Cyberspace, it's a BOOK, kid, not a clay tablet or a stone and chisel! Get the fuck over yourself and your laptop.

(Via Bookslut)

1 comment:

CB said...

Bah. I always hated when people would bring their laptops to class. 1) They usually had wireless ethernet and were playing snood instead of paying attention. 2) Some people type too fucking loud.

Bah. lol ...stupid Y/Z generation.