Books by text?

As reported in the Metro this morning, one school is to abandon text books and instead allow pupils to download information from the school intranet on to their mobile phones. The City Academy in Hackney, which opens in September ’09, will pioneer the e-books in a hope to bring down the costs of text books.

Is this a good idea I hear you ask? In this era of ever progressing technology I think that the smartest schools are the ones that not only keep up with technology, but embrace it too. I for one would have been exceedingly happy to be able to click a button and get my homework instead of having to lug home a massive text book in my back pack!

The City Academy has the right idea about communicating with the pupils in this digital age. This lush just wishes it had come a decade earlier!