skullaria wrote:
"Faced with declining literacy and the ever-growing distractions of the electronic media, faced with the fact that - Harry Potter fans aside - so few kids curl up with a book and read for pleasure anymore, what do we teachers do? We saddle students with textbooks that would turn off even the most passionate reader."

Real easy...
Give kids a cd with all their books at the beginning of term. If they're already used to reading of a monitor, feed them the info that way. A Wiki-style classroom would be damn interesting, especially from year to year. Teach the kids to use computers as tools as well as toys.