eBook vs. Printed Textbook

1. Chromebook iPad eBook vs. Printed Textbook Win 8 Tablet IMCAT Dec 10, 2013

2. Digital Natives

3. Digital Natives (Time)

4. Digital Natives • Digital Natives switch between devices and/or platforms 27 times per hour • In order to keep Digital Natives engaged, content creators need to think differently • As they grow tired or bored they turn their attention to something new • Digital Immigrants are intuitively linear - they want to see a beginning, middle, and end to stories. • For Natives, stories still need a beginning, middle and end, but they will accept it in any order. • Digital Natives are subconsciously switching between platforms and can pick up different pieces of a story from different mediums in any order.

5. Understanding the Shift from Print to Digital

6. Shift from Physical to Digital Media • Music • Movies • Textbooks

7. Shift from Physical to Digital Media

8. Engaging Digital Natives Digital Learning Model 20th Century Model

9. Agenda • Our collective challenge • Print vs. Digital comparison • Why printed textbooks become outdated • Brief digital demonstration • Digital delivery platforms • Making the transition from print to digital • Examples of Texas district digital transitions • Uniqueness of digital implementation and support

10. Our Collective Challenge

11. 8th Grade Science Average Scores - 2011

12. 4th Grade Math Average Scores - 2011

13. NAEP 8thGrade State Science Scores • North Dakota • Montana • Vermont • New Hampshire • South Dakota • Utah • Massachusetts • Minnesota • Colorado • Wyoming • Maine • Virginia • Idaho • Wisconsin • Ohio Iowa Michigan Kentucky Nebraska Missouri Washington Kansas Oregon New Jersey Connecticut Alaska Indiana Texas

18. Print vs. Digital

19. Digital – More than an eBook Video Power Lessons PowerPoint Lessons Digital eBook Skill Builder Practice Problems Assessment Questions Study Sheets Benchmarks Online Gradebook

20. Digital Benefits Teachers & Administrators • Automatic grading • More consistent instructional quality • Enables differentiated instruction • Provides rich insights for students and parents • Randomization of content • Always updated • Tracks program usage • Engages students and improves STAAR results

21. Digital Benefits Students • 24x7 access to instructional content • Real-time differentiated coaching and feedback • Engaging digital content • Equal access to consistently high quality tutorials • Improves grades and STAAR results

22. How Printed TextbooksQuickly Become Out of Date

23. TEA Planned TEKS Revisions - Science Reality of Proclamation 2014 - 8 year textbook adoption: Fall 2014 – Districts adopt new science materials “expected” to last 8+ years Fall 2018 – Printed science textbooks become obsolete 4 years into adoption Q: Does it makes sense to spend district funds on the adoption of a printed textbook that is supposed to support student learning for 8 years when the textbook will become obsolete in 4 years?

24. New Scientific Discoveries are Happening All of the Time

25. Physics Discoveries August 24, 2006 Pluto is no longer a planet - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally defined what it means to be a “planet.” This definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a member of the new “dwarf planet” category (and specifically as a plutoid). • Planets: The eight worlds from Mercury to Neptune. • Dwarf Planets: Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite." • Small Solar System Bodies: All other objects orbiting the Sun.

26. Physics Discoveries October 8, 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Discovery of the Higgs Boson - The 2013 Physics Nobel Prize has been awarded to two physicists who were instrumental in developing the theory that helps explain the origin of mass of elementary particles and predicts the existence of the Higgs Boson discovered last year. The discovery of this new class of elementary particles not only completes one of the great intellectual achievements of the last century -- the standard model of particle physics -- but also raises new questions and has implications for other areas of physics including the birth of the Universe.

27. Other Scientific Discoveries (examples)

28. Digital Demonstration

29. Dynamic Science eBooks Chromebook, Mac, or PC iPads Win 8/Android Tablets

30. Video Power Lessons

31. Student Study Sheets for each TEKS

32. Interactive Questions with Feedback

33. Printed Materials for the Transition • Priced at the cost to print the books = $49 ea. • Same content as state approved Dynamic eBook • Cost effective way to get a few classroom sets to support district going from Print to Digital

34. Digital Delivery Platforms Whole Class • Projectors, TV screens, smart boards Small Group Tutorials • PCs, Macs, Tablets Individual, self paced • PCs, Macs, iPads, Chromebooks, Win 8 and Android Tablets, Smart Phones, BYOD Technology: • Cloud Based Learning Management System

35. The Transition from Print to Digital • Florida has mandated that all K-12 instructional materials are required to be provided in electronic format by 2015-2016. • West Virginia replaced social studies print textbook purchases with digital textbooks. • San Diego Unified School district has distributed 78,000 digital textbooks to teachers and students since 2011 and purchased 26,000 iPads for district use in June 2012.

36. The Transition from Print to Digital • On Feb. 1, 2012, the US Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in collaboration with several tech organizations, released a downloadable "Digital Textbook Playbook" to "encourage collaboration, accelerate the development of digital textbooks and improve the quality and penetration of digital learning in K-12 public education.”

37. The Transition from Print to Digital • Amazon announced in July 2010 that eBooks were outselling paper books, and a July 2012 report by the Association of American Publishers showed that eBook revenue exceeded that of hardcover books for the first time ever.

38. Efficacy of eBooks • Students who used an interactive, digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple's iPad in California's Riverside Unified School District in 2012 scored 20 percent higher on standardized tests vs. students who learned with print textbooks.

39. Biology EOC Case Study

40. Pros vs. Cons Pros • Tablets help students learn more material faster. • 81% of K-12 teachers believe that "tablets enrich classroom education.” • On a tablet, eBooks can be updated instantly to get new editions or information. Cons Tablets enable students to cut corners or cheat on schoolwork. Many students do not have internet access at home Some schools don’t have technology devices or sufficient internet bandwidth to use digital.

41. Districts Going Digital - iPads • Belton ISD • Caddo Mills ISD • Coppell ISD • Crandall ISD • Eanes ISD • El Paso ISD • Ft. Worth ISD • Jacksboro ISD • Lewisville ISD • Mansfield ISD McAllen ISD McGregor ISD Midway ISD New Braunfels ISD Rockwall ISD San Elizario ISD Santa Fe ISD Socorro ISD Wimberley ISD

42. Districts Going Digital – Other

43. How is the transition being funded in TX? • Federal, state and local funds • Municipal bonds • Grants • IMA (via Senate Bill 6)

44. Senate Bill 6 Summary (TFN)

45. Senate Bill 6 Summary (con’t) http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/SB6analysisFINAL.pdf?docID=2801

46. Digital Implementation & Support An 8-year commitment • Initial set-up • Professional development/in-service trainings • Refresher trainings • Managing student logins, rosters and change • Usage monitoring • Teacher and campus support • Annual enrollment updates

47. Digital Publisher Responsiveness 11/28/13 Drew, I really love this textbook for regular chemistry students.  I am going through the bonding part because that is what I am teaching right now and I wanted to suggest that the animation that you have on page 182 might not be the best way to demonstrate covalent bonding.  If you are only going to show covalent and not polar covalent, maybe you could replace that animation with a diatomic molecule, maybe O2 or something like that.  Even better, in my opinion, would be to add an animation so you have an ionic, a covalent and a polar molecule. Just a suggestion. Nancy Dougherty, M.Ed.

48. Digital Publisher Responsiveness Customer Support Response 12/3/13 Hi Nancy, Thank you for your constructive criticism. As you said, we are always looking to improve and love feedback. On the page before, we have an ionic bond. On this page, we explain both polar and nonpolar covalent bonds, but we only have an animation of a polar covalent bond forming. On the next page, we do have a short example of a nonpolar covalent bond (diatomic Br). We will definitely tweak the animation label and text to make it clear to students that the animation on page 182 is a polar covalent bond. We will also add an animation to this page showing nonpolar covalent bonds forming to provide similar examples for both types of bonds. Please let us know if you find any other area where we could make concepts more clear. Sapling Customer Support

49. eBook vs. Textbook Summary • Lead with digital learning resources, accommodate with print where needed • Address internet access issues with some printed books and USB drives with digital content • Don’t over-invest precious district funds in printed materials that are un-engaging and will soon become obsolete. Demand that Publishers sell you (at their cost, $0 mark-up) a minimum number of printed classroom sets to accommodate the shrinking number of students without access to technology

50. What to Look for in Digital Resources • Content • Written specifically for Texas • Commitment to real-time updates • Features • Full, interactive, dynamic eBook (not just PDFs) • Supported on all devices and browsers • Available in iBooks • Implementation • Initial set-up (loading and maintaining student logins) • Ongoing training and free support • Usage monitoring to ensure success