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Burn the textbook [via Facebook] (posted 14 January 2015, 12pm)

Textbooks are a fundamentally destructive feature of the educational landscape. It is like paying $400 a semester for someone to piss on your cognitive shoes and tell you that itâ€™s raining. http://ift.tt/1IxK11B

Burn the textbook

From Audrey Watters, at Hack Education last week, on Appleâ€™s Big Damn Announcement about digital textbooks. Emphasis mine. .Â .Â . One of the things that digital content makes obvious is that the current physical manifestation of a print-bound textbook is a strangely awful construct â€” one designed toâ€¦

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