Well, recently we had some reporters (Tatsuhito Iida and Angela Perone) visit from Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞,). Yomiuri Shinbun, is Japan’s largest newspaper and reported to be the largest newspaper in the world (with a circulation in excess of 14 million), visited Mici Orona’s honors biology class (at Arlington HS) to watch students using the Intelligent Papers textbook readers as part of our digital textbook pilot program. It seems that we are unique in our implementation of digital textbooks. How did they find out about us? The reporters found us when they did an Internet search for California school districts using this digital technology. We currently have 25 teachers and more than 1,200 students across the district now benefiting from the resources available through the Governor’s Free Digital Textbook Initiative. We hope to expand that list soon.
Tatsuhito and Angela shared that the Japanese population is highly interested in bringing such technology to their students as well. It is exciting to see this kind of validation that we in RUSD are, indeed a world class school district!
Coincidentally, there is another article also regarding digital text in Riverside found at the Educated Guess blog found at the enclosed hyperlink.
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