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Resistance against Move to eBooks
There was move toward digitalizing all textbooks, but there was a strong resistance from the students of Generation Y who still remembered reading paper books. -
SMARTboard act
A Description of SMART boardsThe national board of education led the passing of a national act which has led to the installation of at least one smartboard for every 80 students who attend every school in the US. -
No More Notebooks!
Notepad Software for iPadsWith the state of the environment continuing to decrease, a mandate was issued that required all students to use iPads instead of conventional notebooks. -
The end of Paper Textbooks
Textbooks for iPadWith Generation Z all attending college, there are no more students younger than graduate age who have experienced life without high speed internet, so the integration of eBooks was easier than five years before when a previous attempt was made. -
Continious Evealuation
Students no longer were evaluated through occasional testing, but because of using all electronic notes and textboos, all work that a student does(including work that wouldn't be graded) goes towards evaluating the student. -
Individualized Assignments
Because of better assesment of individual students, each assignment is cumstom tailored to fit each student. -
Opensource Education
Because of resources such as Khan acadamy in the early to mid 2000s, there was a rise in free, opensource education that people, particularlily post college age, began to utilize heavily. The percentage of people returning to graduate school after work in industry decreased becuase of the opportunities offered to them for free. -
Move to all Online Classes
Due to increasing fuel prices, and improved computing technology, all classes for secondary school students were converted to an online format that didn't require travel. There was a hope to convert classes for primary school students in the near future. -
Primary School to online Classes
Through research on the attention spans of younger children, educators were able to format online education in a way that worked for the adolsecent mind.
