Students, turn your iPad to page 101

The article, "Georgia state senator hopes to replace schoolbooks with iPads" is a quick write up by Daniel Eran Dilger describing a proposal by Apple and a senator to replace traditional text books with iPads.  In the essay the senator is noted as saying, "we're currently spending about $40 million a year on books.  And they last about seven years.  We have books that don't even have 9/11.  This is the way kids are learning, and we need to be willing to move in that direction."  What would Neil Postman say?