Cost of books at second level
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| Cost of books at second level 
22/10/2010 15:36 - School Specific
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Just wondering why, with all the advances in IT, the school books are not on DVD?
It would mean that heavy schoolbags would be a thing of the past. It´s probably the publishers who are watching their profits.
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| re : Cost of books at second level
26/10/2010 09:20 - School Specific
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Could it be that book publishers wouldn´t make as much money or am I just being cynical!
That said I know that a lot of the kids in secondary school write notes on their books and highlight important text and you can´t really do that with CDs. Also every child would have to have a laptop and presumably parents would have to fund them. Although I did read an article somewhere recently that all students in one secondary school are receiving laptops this year as a trial project - think it was funded by one of the IT companies rather than the dept of ed - may be wrong about this.
I agree with you, with all the developments in IT there must be a way of reducing the schoolbag load.
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| re... : Cost of books at second level
01/11/2010 23:58 - School Specific
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Susie, I don´t think you are being cynical. I´d say you are perfectly right.
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