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Italian students ditch books for PCs

8 Oct 2008 | Rowan Hanna | One Comment

I wrote yesterday how I think that it is inevitable that electronic readers will ultimately replace paper textbooks in classrooms. Well today there is good news from Italy where a group of more than 60 children – aged between eight and 10 – will take part in an experiment which will see them use only computers for an entire year.

The experiment aims to test how computers can improve the leaning process.

Read the full story here: Italy pupils ditch books for PCs

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  • Will 2009 be the Year of the E-book? - Epaper Central said:

    [...] or so booksellers that released their e-books statistics. You have schools all over the world ditching those expensive and heavy to carry textbooks for their cheaper, lighter e-paper based cousins. US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book [...]

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