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Immersive, interactive, and engaging, textbooks on iPad offer an experience that will capture students' imaginations and take learning to a whole new level.

For hundreds of years, textbooks have put a world of knowledge in the hands of students. But while the way people learn has changed dramatically, the traditional textbook has stayed the same.

Then along comes the iPad – a potential game changer being driven into schools by the students themselves. Scratch, an amazing programming environment for kids (and grownups) developed by Mitch Resnick’s group at the MIT Medialab, was REMOVED from the iTunes store. And now, the offerings of the old guard publishers will be featured. The message is clear – “school is fine the way it has always been – now buy some new toys that require no changes in the system at all.”

This didn’t happen by accident. Careful thought went into Apple’s perspective on how tablets should be used by children. Today they decided that the iPad should be a costly version of the Amazon Kindle Fire. While this may be a lucrative move on Apple’s part, it destroys any semblance of Apple caring one whit about real learning. It is as if Dewey, Piaget, Papert and other giants in the field had never been born.

The assumption is that free open-source material on the web is equivalent to textbooks and that is probably true. They are both equally badly written.

They use their skill and craft to present information through the lens of singular intellects, making the nonfiction genre an eye-opening experience in human communication.

On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."

תוויות: ספרי לימוד, iPad