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• W809314753 abstract "THERE'S A LOT OF TALK from schools about moving away from--or, at least, weaning themselves off of--textbooks as the primary content delivery platform. But that's easier said than done if you live in a state that limits how you can spend your money. And even if your state has liberalized its regulations around instructional materials spending, some districts are still caught in an all-text-book-all-the-time mindset. Policymakers and educators who are struggling to bring about this shift might look to Indiana to see what districts can do once they are given freedom to spend their instructional materials dollars not to just deliver content, but to usher in more profound educational change. Creative Financing In November 2009, the Indiana State Board of Education changed the definition of a textbook to include digital content and the devices necessary to deliver or experience that digital content. This change set in motion a number of innovative initiatives at the district level that are having a seismic impact on how teaching and learning actually take place in the classroom. Indiana has a unique business model for the acquisition and use of textbooks--parental rental. School corporations, as districts are called in Indiana, charge parents a rental fee for textbooks based on the cost of the books. With the change in definition, school corporations can use the rental fee to charge parents for textbooks, digital content and/or laptops or other devices required to access the content. School corporations are aggregating funds from a variety of sources, including textbook rental fees, to implement l-to-1 programs that will allow all students to have access to high-quality digital content. Some corporations have gotten very clever with the math. North Daviess Community School Corp. in Elnora, a small town southwest of Indianapolis, provides students with a $500 netbook from HP or Lenovo loaded with productivity software such as Microsoft School and Adobe applications. Half the cost of the device is covered by the North Daviess capital projects funds and half by parental textbook rental fees. The $250 from textbook fees is amortized over the four years a student is in high school at a $62.50-per-year hardware rental rate. The corporation then prorates a set of classroom textbooks over a typical six-year lifespan and purchases additional digital content. The total textbook rental fee per student, which covers hardware, digital content and textbooks, comes to less than $100 a year--a deal compared to neighboring school corporations that charge up to $180 per student. Parents save money and students have a netbook and access to digital content as well as a textbook. (At press time, a new law passed the Indiana legislature that would ensure equity in the funding for students on free and reduced lunch. Complete details were not available.) Setting a Vision But, of course, districts are not moving in this direction simply to buy a bunch of hardware and save money. Dan Tyree, superintendent of Plymouth Community School Corp., says of its digital content initiative: Digital content and curriculum should change so that when the status of Pluto changes, our students know that immediately. It should be low cost, but the real purpose of digital content and curriculum is less to save money and more to help teachers differentiate lessons, assignments and assessments. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Todd Whitlock, North Daviess' director of curriculum and technology, agrees that the goal is to transform how his district delivers teaching and learning. are changing instruction to authentic, real-world learning and getting beyond questions that Google can answer, he says. had a vision of moving from textbooks as the sole source of content to teacher- and student-created [content] and other free materials. We are calling it The Living Textbook. …" @default.
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• W809314753 title "Making the Big Shift: Districts in Indiana Have Created Innovative Alternatives to Textbooks, Thanks in Part to a Change in State Policy" @default.
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