| South Korea to Replace All Paper Textbooks With Digital Content |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Outside the classroom a hot summer day beckons, but fourth-grade teacher Yeon Eun-jung's students are glued to their tablet PCs as they watch an animated boy and a girl squabble about whether water becomes heavier when frozen. The small scene in this rural town is part of something big: South Korea is taking a $2 billion gamble that its students are ready to ditch paper textbooks in favor of tablet PCs as part of a vast digital scholastic network. |
| Source: Education Week (USA) | Published: August 4th, 2011 |
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