No more textbooks weighing down on those Shoulders
South Korea’s shift towards digital textbooks began on March 8, 2007. This has gradually led to many, especially the United States to take a similar role in reforming and providing educational resources to students in a more technological and cost-efficient manner. South Korea has already constructed well devised plans to distribute its curriculum materials into digital technology by 2015.
With the U.S. well aware of its decay of relative international education, they are seeking different ways to integrate better methods to deliver educational information. In doing so, President Barack Obama launched the “Digital Promise” which is a non-profit project designed to bring together technology with innovators and educators in researching software that will hopefully breed effective learning.
Technology has become an integral part of many teenagers and young adults’ lives. With laptops, computers and iPads becoming more prevalent in our technology driven world, business technology management has enhanced the availability of these resources to society. Although entrepreneurs will relish in the light of this opportunity, the real question comes down to who will navigate and control the distribution of the “information”? Teachers will still teach, innovators will innovate, but the question remains: could the government play the invisible hand?