iBooks 2 Apple Digital Textbooks
The makers of the iPad ( ipod and iphone) has introduced an new app .Geared more of the education and made for the iPad,
iBooks 2 Digital Textbooks is for the new version of iBooks for the student to interact with , digital textbooks ,ect which will give student/teacher a way to interact online.
From ABCNEWS :
“The textbook is not always the ideal learning tool,” said Schiller. “Yet their content is amazing.”
He showed how different lessons — in biology, math, literature and other areas — could play on an iPad. The new interactive books would cost $14.99, far less than most of today’s paper textbooks. They could be updated continually, said Apple. And it will not take a programming wizard to create one.
Students will be able to “mark up” their iPad books electronically, creating the digital equivalent of note cards as they go through lessons, said Apple. And they will be able to keep the iBooks, since they are digital files, after the courses are over.
Schiller said Apple was forming partnerships with three of the biggest publishers of school texts: Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which are responsible for 90 percent of the textbooks used in the U.S. today. DK Publishing, which publishes vividly-colored books for younger kids, is joining in as well. Apple said a first offering would be an iPad-only book, “Life On Earth,” by E.O. Wilson, the famed biologist and professor emeritus at Harvard.
Perhaps we are starting to enter into a “new interactive age” with this type of releases. Text books made of paper could or rather may become a past item like wringer washing machines… but not yet as only Apple is marketing this.
With all the problems trying to get the attention of our younger folks and keeping them engage them on a scholarly level the iBooks 2 Apple Digital Textbooks could have just been made alittle easier if not down right helpful!
