Saying Good Bye to text books in school

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2011/02/18/sosa.clicked.in.tech.education.cnn?iref=allsearch

The future of American Education.  The iSchool.  A student names Travis Allen has come up with the concept of iSchool.  He was sick of the way he was learning in school and thinks there is a much better way to learn and that is on top of technology.  He believes that we need to adapt to technology in America and move forward.  His mission is to inspire and educate students on how to become life long digital learners in the information age.  He has come up with programs and apps that you download.  You would then only need to bring your iPad (or whatever kind of tablet pad) to all your classes and that would be it.  There would be no need for paper books.  Some schools are trying this out and requiring their students to have an iPad while attending that particular school.  "Students are sick of using plain paper, they enjoy seeing the color and it brings what they are learning to life."

I am very curious about this topic and think is is something that has serious potential.  I am all about the new era of technology and benefiting from it.  I have had some ebooks used in classes and while it was very convenient for me to not have to carry around a book and I could just open up the macbook, I also noticed I didn't obtain as much information.  I think it would be different if I had a iPad where it was a flat screen and not just a window open.  The ebooks I used weren't the best in clarity and I would skim through the material.  I do believe that this idea is good especially at younger ages when you are learning key fundamentals as the video said the kids are more interested and intrigued by the different colors and things you would be able to do on the programs vs a plain text book with plain letters and numbers.