Replacing textbooks to get Kindle-type devices

Chris Dawson over at ZDNet Education wrote a great post about what it would take to get Kindle-type devices or paperless educational curricula to replace textbooks and reading lists in elementary school and high school, and some of the problems that would have to be addressed.

Indeed, to get Kindles in the hand of 5th graders, we’re going to have to think about battle hardening the devices (think a companies like Motorola Symbol Technologies or Panasonic’s Toughbook division stepping in to help) and having them owned by the schools, because unless the prices of these things drop to the point where the replacement costs are roughly equivalent to what it currently costs to outfit kids with textbooks and literature for a wear and tear lifetime of 3 to 5 years, it’s going to be a non-starter — kids are going to lose these things and destroy them.

This of course, is assuming your kids don’t go to a school district where textbooks are 30 years old because of budgetary issues.

Also Read: OLPC is dead… What Kindlenomics taught us

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PHONEREADER Library - - Jean-Philippe Pastor

Neopragmatism

Putnam, in Words and Life (1994), enumerates the ideas in the Classical Pragmatist tradition, which newer pragmatists find most compelling. To paraphrase Putnam:

1. antiscepticism (the notion that doubt requires justification just as much as belief);
   


2. fallibilism (the view that there are no metaphysical guarantees against the need to revise a belief);
   


3. antidualism about "facts" and "values";
   that practice, properly construed, is primary in philosophy.

Three Basic Moves. Linguistic pragmatism revises pragmatism in three basic moves.

First, one applauds pragmatists such as James and Dewey for repudiating a variety of methods and goals in traditional philosophy.

Second, one renounces their attempts to reconstruct what should not be reconstructed.

Finally, once one accepts the idea that only language is available to furnish philosophy's materiel. This step complete, one can create freely, even poetically, to serve whatever ends seem best.

• Download ebooks on http://www.frenchtheory.com/
• See that post with different algorithms in metabole
• See the journal French Metablog with today different posts