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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are much younger, but this will bother me, especially once you hit middle school/high school. How on earth do you take a challenging AP history class without reading a textbook? I read literally my whole AP US history textbook over the course of the year in high school. And what about for reference? What happens when you can't remember all the parts of the cell in bio, do you just google it? How do you study?

Math, I can see, because we really just used ours for the math problems/homework, so if those are online or in handouts, then fine.

[b]I guess I'm also biased because reading is how I learn best. I got a lot more out of the nightly readings than I did from class, just because of my learning style. And it's still how I learn best (I've never been a YouTube learner, though my husband uses it a lot to learn new things, like home repair). But what happens to kids who are that same way?[/b] [/quote]

I think some people may be confusing a lack of a bound physical book with a lack of reading.  My two kids, currently in middle school and high school have done a ton of reading.  It just happens on screens (think Kindle) or in hand outs.  My 11th grader has read multiple novels and AP texts through her computer.

There are a lot of advantages to this.  It can be interactive.  It can be edited in real time to be up to date and address anything that lacks clarity or needed context.

We can talk about whether the electronic nature of the content is somehow less optimal, or bad for the eyes or whatnot.  But reading is still occurring.[/quote]

Maybe it's a coincidence, but the fall of textbooks correspondended to a reduction in assigned reading volume.

And all the crazy apps are much harder to navigate than books. [/quote]

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