Selling Ilearn Technologies Software to the Metropolitan School District

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c. Teacher can deliver it to students

d. Users can share their courses with the world.

Visualization:

- By using the “learning interruption” software, students’ traditional model of learning will be changed.

- Traditional textbooks have are very heavy, which is not beneficial for students’ physical health.

- “The average textbook can weigh in at 3 to 5 pounds. So if your pack has a couple of textbooks, a notebook, and water bottle in it, you're already pushing the limits for a two-shoulder pack” (Cronan).

- Doctors and physical therapists recommend that people carry no more than 10% to 15% of their body weight. So if you weigh 120 pounds, your backpack should be no more than 12 to 18 pounds. If you weigh 150, it should be no more than 15 to 20 pounds, etc (Cronan).

- A backpack is a weight you carry around each and every day. For most of us, our high school and college years are the only time we'll carry around this much on a regular basis — and for several years. Yet it's also a time when our bodies are still growing. That leaves us more vulnerable to injury at the point in our lives when we're carrying the most weight (Cronan).

- Traditional textbooks also cost a lot, it may lead to financial burden for some of the students.

- “Students spend an average of $1,200 a year on textbooks and course materials, and prices have been rising more than for times the rate of inflation for the past two decades”.

- “A General Accounting Office report in 2005 noted that textbook prices rose 186 percent in the U.S. from 1986 to 2004, compared to only a 3 percent rise in other prices over the same period and a 7 percent rise in average college tuition and fees” (Allen).

- The American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry has put together this nifty chart showing the egregious, 812 percent rise in the cost of course materials since 1978, as captured in the Bureau of Labor Statistics's consumer price index data. The price of all those Intro to Sociology and Calculus books have shot up faster than health-care, home prices, and, of course, inflation.

- Use ipad as electronic textbook and teaching materials will make a lot of benefits.

- Ipads are much lighter than traditional textbooks.

Ipad: Weight (Wi-Fi):1.44 pounds (652 g) Weight (Wi-Fi + Cellular):1.46 pounds (662 g)

Ipad2: Weight (Wi-Fi): 1.33 pounds (601 g) Weight (Wi-Fi + 3G): 1.35 pounds (613 g)

Ipad Mini: Weight (Wi-Fi): 0.68 pound (308 g) Weight (Wi-Fi + Cellular): 0.69 pound (312 g)

- Ipads costs less than traditional textbooks

Ipad: Wi-Fi: 16GB $499, 32GB $599, 64GB $699, 128GB $799

Wi-Fi + Cellular: 16GB $629, 32GB $729, 64GB $829, 128GB $929

Ipad2: Wi-Fi:16GB $399

Wi-Fi + 3G: 16GB $529

Ipad Mini: Wi-Fi: 16GB$329, 32GB $429, 64GB $529

Wi-Fi + Cellular:16GB $459, 32GB $559, 64GB $659

Transition: Use ipads to replace traditional textbooks will reduce many disadvantages for students and bring benefits for them.

Conclusion

Work cited

Cronan, Kate M. MD; “Is it OK to carry a backpack on just one shoulder if you use a different shoulder every day?”; September 2011

http://kidshealth.org/teen/expert/school_jobs/bpack_shoulders.html

“Make textbook affordable”

http://www.studentpirgs.org/campaigns/sp/make-textbooks-affordable

Allen, Charlotte; “Why Do Textbooks Cost So Much?”

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2008/04/youve_just_started_your_freshm.html

Grossmont College. “Traditional Textbooks vs. eTextbooks – Which is Right for You?”

Retrieved from http://www.grossmont.edu/library/eTextbooks.pdf