{"id":258,"date":"2005-07-21T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2005-07-21T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T07:37:16","slug":"the_paperless_high_school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/the_paperless_high_school\/","title":{"rendered":"the paperless high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com\/dailystar\/dailystar\/83469.php\">Arizona Daily Star<\/a>, Empire High School in Vail, Arizona will soon become the state&#8217;s first all-wireless, all-laptop public school. The laptops will <i>entirely<\/i> replace paper textbooks. Traditional lesson plans will be built around online articles and electronic reference material. Adminstrators are betting that this flexible teacher-driven curriculum will inspire both students and teachers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calvin Baker, superintendent of Vail Unified School District, said the move to electronic materials gets teachers away from the habit of simply marching through a textbook each year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Educators also believe the initiative will improve learning, engage tech-saavy students, and better prepare them for future careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent article in the Arizona Daily Star, Empire High School in Vail, Arizona will soon become the state&#8217;s first all-wireless, all-laptop public school. The laptops will entirely replace paper textbooks. Traditional lesson plans will be built around online articles and electronic reference material. Adminstrators are betting that this flexible teacher-driven curriculum will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[2607],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-laptop-tablet-wireless-highschool-education-technology-textbook-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}