Writing for Edgelings Live from Silicon Valley, Michael S. Moore has a piece today about the death throes of newspapers that we are watching. School textbooks will one day follow this path.
Moore predicts in this detailed and interesting article, that some form of newspapers will re-emerge. Thinking ahead to when the education establishment grip loosens, this prediction by Moore gives us a look at the likely the future of textbooks:
What does that mean? Well, surprisingly it means: Forget computers. Newspapers [Textbooks] have already lost that battle. Instead, move on – and target the next platform. My gut tells me that the future of news [lessons] delivery is to e-Books, like Kindle, and even more, Smart Phones. So rebuild your paper [edu stuff] for those platforms – automatic downloading of the daily news [lessons] directly to e-books, and powerful new navigation and social networking (i.e., story reporting and sharing) [(i.e., teaching and learning)] tools for the phone.
