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.
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.