Sweden embraced screens in classrooms and pushed books aside. Years later, the country is making a costly reversal that says everything about what went wrong.
I attended elementary school in the days when we used old paper shopping bags to cover our text books. They were easily 15 years old and we lived in a winter town that got a lot of muddy sloppy snow.
I can confirm there is a path toward text books that last more than 15 years.
The “This Book is the Property Of” label had 9 spaces. Most of my textbooks had 4-6 previous students.
I remember being assigned a couple books where all the lines had been filled out, and I had to create my own space below. They were definitely falling apart by that time.
In 15 years, they would have hopefully replaced those textbooks at least twice anyway. Or those are going to be some ratty-ass textbooks…
I attended elementary school in the days when we used old paper shopping bags to cover our text books. They were easily 15 years old and we lived in a winter town that got a lot of muddy sloppy snow.
I can confirm there is a path toward text books that last more than 15 years.
15 years is pushing it, IMO.
The “This Book is the Property Of” label had 9 spaces. Most of my textbooks had 4-6 previous students.
I remember being assigned a couple books where all the lines had been filled out, and I had to create my own space below. They were definitely falling apart by that time.