1. Changing technology for a changing world. 2. Need Over the last 10 years, technology has changed greatly. Internet has gone from being connected to wireless Cellular phones have gone from being only for phone calls to smallcomputers that connect the user to all over the world through the World Wide Web. Computers have gone from being large desktop models to small 7 tablet size. Cell phones and computers have gone from being owned by just a few to now most teenagers and adults in the United States have one. Information comes to in small amounts and is not dependent on books or television networks, but is available to anyone connected to the World Wide Web and especially Social Networks. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/06/cell-phone-ownership-hits-91-of-adults/ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/25-Technologies-that-Changed-the-Decade-363376/ http://www.bls.gov/opub/focus/volume1_number4/cex_1_4.htm 3. Need Our students, especially our upper elementary andmiddle school students, have grown up in a world where they use technology on a daily basis at home. Students play video games and educational games and watching videos on their home computers, and they use the computers to help complete their homework. According to National Science Foundation, 78% of fourth graders and 84% of eighth graders and among students receiving Free and Reduced Lunches 62% and 67% have computers at home in 2004. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c1/c1s7.htm 4. Need 5. Need Knowing thatthese are changing times for our students, our schools need to make changes to keep our students interested and to support their new learning styles. 6. Change Many Schools are doingso by having the use of computers in the classroom and more and more schools are introducing 1:1 computers, so that each student can have their own computer to use at school. http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/fa cts_for_features_special_editions/cb11-ff15.htmlhttp://vtrural.org/sites/default/files/stor y-DW1.jpg 7. Change One major change ineducation to help support these new type of learners is switching from traditional books that each student carries to a on-line version of information, whether it is a textbook from an educational publisher or Flexible versions that teachers are able to customize to fit their situations. 8. Change Changes in Textbooks 9. Change The change to digital textbooks has to come from thetop of Education, including the U.S. Department of Education and each individual State Department of Education. Local levels of education may have the desire tointroduce digital textbooks, but without help and permission from upper levels of government, it can be more difficult. 10. Change Change has to happen, just not at school, but also athome and in communities.http://napi.netflow.com/wingspanpartnerships.org/images/To%20Engagement.jpg 11. Change The United States Department of Education along with theFederal Communication Commission have developed the Digital Textbook Playbook. The Playbook shows the steps needed for a local educational unit to implement digital textbooks. Digital Textbook Playbook 12. Change 22 states have grouped together to form the NationalAssociation of State Textbook Association (NASTA) to help with adoption of textbooks. This organization has adopted the definition of instructional materials to include digital/electronic formats. Other states have changed their educational laws to either require switching to digital textbooks or encourage the use of digital textbooks. http://www.ecs.org/html/Document.asp?chouseid=5783 13. State adoption of digital textbooks 14. Change The ACT will be offered in an On-Line version starting in 2015 according to anarticle in the New York Times with Jon Erickson, president of ACTs educational division. We are moving to a computer-based version, but for the foreseeable future, we will also have the paper and pencil test as an option for schools that dont have the technological capability, said Jon Erickson, the president of ACTs Education Division. We will probably have the option for students to choose paper and pencil, as well. But all the anecdotal evidence is that students prefer the computer. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/education/act-to-move-towardcomputer-based-testing.html?_r=0Lewin, T. (2013, May 6). ACT to Moves To Computers. New York Times [New York], p. A14. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/education/act-to-move-toward-computer-based-testing.html?_r=0 15. Research Research that has beencompleted on the change from bound textbooks to digital textbooks: Digital textbooks allow for more flexibility in reading levels and different styles of presenting the information. Briefing at the State TechnologyEducational Directors Association in 2012 Fletcher, G., Schaffhauser, D., & Levin, D. (2012). Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age. State Educational Technology Directors Association. 16. Styles of Digital Textbooks Traditional Textbook Publishers have on-line versionsof their published textbooks available for purchase to use with the textbooks. They offer the full textbook on line plus links to supporting websites and materials. There is usually a one click glossary so students can see the definition of the vocabulary words that are in the readings. 17. Styles of Digital Textbooks 18. Styles of Digital Textbooks Publishers who offer this service in Michigan: Macmillian/McGraw-Hill, Glencoe Pearson/Prentice Hall Houghton Mifflin Harcourt http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2013/02/06/02textbooks.h06.html 19. Styles of Digital Textbooks Discovery Education has a version called Tech Books http://www.discoveryeducation.com/administrators/curricularresources/techbook/ The Tech-Books are able to link to the videos and other resources that Discovery Education offers. 20. Styles of Digital Textbooks CK-12 Flexbooks CK-12 Vision Statement: We need to go from todays fixed time, variable learning to a variable time, fixed learning model or even better, maximum capability learning within a teachers constraints of standards compliance and other administrative rules in their region. This new model adapts to each student level, style, and circumstance while leveraging new digital tools to answer the most fundamental questions: What can digitization do for the textbook? and What can digitization do for learning? instead of the more mundane How can the textbook become digital?. http://www.ck12.org/about/ http://www.ck12.org/teacher/ 21. Implementation The decision has been made to introduceDigital Textbooks into a school, now what?http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5xHBZqys6o8/TEB1A8EcgNI/AAAAAAAABO8/Uy0 B8-abN2I/s1600/NoTextbooks.png 22. Implementation The introduction of Digital Textbooks into a schoolneeds a team behind it, so the introduction will be successful and adopted by all. Team Members: Administration Curriculum Director Technology Department Teachers 23. Implementation 24. Conclusion Why switch to Digital Textbooks? Digital Textbooks will allow our students to learn in a waythat they use technology and find information on a daily basis. With proper implementation, Digital Content will save money in the curriculum budget. Curriculum will stay up-to-date. Digital Textbooks allow for the needs of all students to be met.