Schools turf out textbooks for technology

By EducationHQ News Team
Published July 10, 2014

No more pencils, no more books. Technology is invading classrooms around Australia and teachers and students in at least one school have heeded rocker Alice Cooper's call to throw away the textbooks.

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Schools turf out textbooks for technology

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