More thoughts about technology.......

I had a discussion just recently with a fellow teacher regarding textbooks. It seems that some parents become concerned when their child is not issued a textbook. For some reason, they take the lack of a book brought home as an indication that the teacher is not really teaching. Wow! Really???? Yes! You would think in our technology driven world that we would no longer need to require students to drag around that 25 lb. burden. After all, most textbook companies now offer the book on disc. So it seems that we still have a need to balance the old with the new.