How far is it to replace a textbook with a tablet computer?

ipad in the United States, Australia when textbooks, according to foreign media reports, the United States, California four school districts will be officially launched pilot, 400 students of the eight grade algebra textbooks will be Apple ipad tablet computer replacement, if the test results as ideal, the future of the project may be expanded to other locations.　　Similarly, a university in Australia will use the ipad instead of paper textbooks to give some students a free ipad for subject study. The debate over whether Apple's ipad will replace traditional paper textbooks and a storm of digital education is growing. With the launch of ipad tablets of different sizes and the introduction of a variety of newspapers and magazines, it appears that the pace of replacing traditional textbooks with tablets is getting closer and faster.　　For tablet makers, replacing traditional textbooks in the education sector is undoubtedly opening up a huge gold mine.　　Text, image finishing/reporter quiet ipad into a new favorite foreign universities Once upon a time, many mobile computer products in the market in full swing, have been sent to become a traditional paper textbooks substitutes, such as notebooks, netbooks, E-books, but it seems that the identification and process is not as high as the ipad-led tablet computer. It is understood that the United States, Japan and other countries in schools have been for some students to provide the ipad, as a future learning tool. Illinois University of Technology, the United States, said an Apple ipad will be offered to all freshman freshmen, while the three colleges, Sidon Hill University, George Fox University and Abilene Christian University, are distributing the ipad at almost the same time for students and faculty; the Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences in Aizhi County, Japan, announced　　The ipad will be released free of charge to students enrolled in the school's information media program next spring, and a university in Australia has announced that it will use the ipad instead of quality textbooks to provide the 2011 science majors with a free ipad for subject study. Not only the education sector, the publishing community has sniffed the electronic textbook revolution brought about by the ipad earlier. A few days after the ipad news was released, some of the main textbook publishers announced that they would use the technology developed by a new york-based content technology company,--scrollmotion, to transfer textbooks to the ipad. The publishers include the McGraw-Hill Education Publishing Group, the Mivlingha group, the Education Media and Publishing group, and Kaplan, a training and research firm under the Washington Post Company. "Since 25, people have been talking about the impact of technology on education," said the head of education at the McGraw-Hill Education and publishing Group. I feel that the 2010 effect will really show.　　However, there are also actively engaged in the electronic publishing industry, and frankly, at present, e-readers can not be like textbooks to meet the needs of education. By the light of the light, selling is cheap in fact, the publishing and education sector will look at the ipad, the most direct reason is that it can store a huge amount of educational books in 9.7 inches bigSmall, 0.7 kilograms of metal "body", so that the vast number of students eventually abandoned heavy schoolbags--This is the world's efforts to promote digital education in the ultimate goal.　　Compared to rival Amazon Kindle,ipad, it is considered more suitable as a carrier of electronic textbooks because of its large color screen that can browse pictures and videos, connect Wi-Fi or 3G networks.　　Greg, director of information services at the University of George Fox, said that the ipad would eventually become a necessary product for students to carry, and that laptops would be relegated to the "dormitory terminal". Of course, the ipad has become the new favorite of American education, with the gradual popularization of electronic books, as well as the low price of electronic books inseparable.　　It is understood that in the most advanced electronic books in the United States, some textbooks complete electronic version of the price is often a piece of paper textbooks, such as Harvard professor Gregory Manchu's introductory reading of the economic principles of the price of 220.95 U.S. dollars, and the electronic version of the textbooks for students to download only 110.49 U.S. dollars. There are reports that the country will take the lead in the implementation of primary and secondary school electronic textbooks in Shanghai, according to statistics, from the first grade to high school, Shanghai students to use 213 textbooks (excluding extra-curricular exercise books, reference books, etc.), a total cost of 1750.36 yuan. "The cost of electronic textbooks is no more expensive than traditional textbooks and, more importantly, it saves a lot of paper, printing costs and energy consumption, and is conducive to environmental protection," the committee said. "The ipad textbook is too early to succeed. Despite the advantages of the ipad textbook, it is too early to succeed in replacing traditional textbooks. Two years ago, when the Kindle DX was launched, it directly pointed to the education market, and the industry expected a bright future, but the students were snubbed.　　Allen Howas, a student at Princeton University, says that in traditional textbooks, it is possible to make annotations in the margins of a page, to refine the material of ideas when writing a paper, "I have no way of interacting with textbook materials and E-books." However, a US researcher has created an ebook platform called inking installed on the ipad, not only can the PDF textbook content on the tablet computer, electronic textbooks with more movies, pictures, hyperlinks and other interactive content to present, so that students and other students and professors, For a discussion of a paragraph in a book, just select the target text and leave a note paper for others to read.　　Students can also directly touch the screen to test and display a full angle 3D molecular model.　　As with ordinary e-books, electronic textbooks are at an early stage, analysts say, and as research continues, there are many useful features, such as sharing priorities, typewritten, and searching. The road to domestic electronic textbooks is still far away compared to the United States, the domestic electronic textbooks are just the beginning, the introduction of the ipad instead of paper textbooks is very slim. In June this year, Shanghai officially announced the first attempt in the next 5 years in China to try electronic textbooks, but adoptedElectronic products as a carrier, the style of electronic textbooks and other details are still under discussion.　　Before, threatened to dabble in the field of education, Han King, but also only wool, its bookstore in the shelves are popular magazines, books, not see students teaching figures. In addition, the ipad and other tablets are using LCD or LED screen, there are many parents worry: a long time to face the computer, the child's eyes will cause damage, as well as radiation problems.　　Another parent proposed: tablets can be logged on the Internet, computers can be interconnected, children will not be tempted to play, download novels, watching video, "connected to the Internet, no one can control."　　Suitable for China's national conditions in order to have the development of a few years of teaching experience in Guangzhou, a primary school teacher he said, tablet computers instead of schoolbags can "burden", but the computer who will pay the bill, is the school, or parents. Today, a 16GB WiFi version of the ipad is priced at $499 in the United States, while the most expensive version is priced at $699. The ipad is just listed in China, the 16GB WiFi version of the price of 3988 yuan, and 3g+wifi's top version is up to 6988 yuan. Such an expensive electronic learning tool in China is certainly not realistic, the need to develop low-cost tablet computers, in order to accelerate the development of domestic electronic textbooks.　　Moreover, the use of electronic products such as the ipad teaching, schools need to be equipped with a complete set of local network equipment, which is also a huge investment. In foreign countries, the biggest hurdle for ipad textbook promotion is that Apple has not signed an agreement with any textbook publisher on online sales of electronic materials, and users can only access them through "third parties".　　Although some educational publishers publish electronic textbooks, a Third-party software platform is needed to "introduce" them to the ipad for students to read, in short, the model is: Education publishers-software platforms-users. What about the domestic situation? Not only lacks the cooperation agreement between the electronic manufacturer and the publisher, the electronic teaching material itself is mixed, the lack of uniform standard. In addition to the people's Education publishing house and other authoritative textbooks published by the electronic materials, the Internet is flooded with a large number of different publishers of electronic materials, and the problem of piracy is serious, "some electronic materials on the Internet can only be used for entertainment, but for teaching, research can not." An electronic textbook manufacturer in China thinks that the domestic electronic textbook is not only a technical problem, but the relevant departments should set up a standard, including publishing standards, fee standards, etc.