Behold--Pixbooks!
"The textbooks are outdated, as far as I'm concerned, and there's no reason why our schools should have our students lug around these antiquated and heavy and expensive textbooks.
"California is the home of Silicon Valley. We are the world leader in technology and innovation, so we can do better than that."
"I know this is, of course, a dramatic shift from the status quo and there is some resistance in some cases," Schwarzenegger said.
"But I feel that this is the wrong time now to hold onto the status quo, because this is one of the worst economic and financial crises that the state has been in since the Great Depression.
"The state has a tremendous lack of money; therefore we had to make severe cuts to schools, billions of dollars of cuts, so we have to find every possible way to think outside the box."
My reactions to this are kinda mixed. Being the perpetually broke college student that I am, the possibility of not having to pay nearly $1000 for books is a fantastic one (not that this effects me since I'm several states away), but I also wonder just how much information is lost in translation when read through the internet.
I think spending even more time glued to the computer screen isn't necessarily the best of ideas... it further enhances this deep sense of disconnection many Americans have to the world around them.
Granted, I'm just as guilty (given that I'm staying in a fairly small town over the summer, most of my paleo-related research has to come from a screen), but I can see a lot of bad things coming from this.
We'll see how it plays out!