Textbooks Can Track Students' Study Habits
English: Textbook (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 07-August-2014 ----- In this age of technology, where the mainstream medium of communication and convenient gadget is the smartphone and the likes, reading a printed copy has become an ancient task, and books is fast becoming antiquated. And using one in the school would be so revealing... of what? Read on... by David Streitfeld SAN ANTONIO -- Several Texas A&M professors know something that generation of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks . They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes -- or simply not opening the book. "It's Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent," said Tracy Hurley, the dean of the school of business. The faculty members here at Texas A&M-San Antonio are neither clairvoyant nor peering over shoulders. They, along with colleagues at eight other colleges, are tes...