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EBooks Turn On Readers?
This article about a school in Tennessee was referred to in today's ASCD Smartbrief.Rucker Stewart Middle school took advantage of a Palm Digital Media and Lightning Source deal to allow schools to download e-books for $750. The e-books allow the school to offer classics not available in its library, and the program has proven to be popular among students. Of course the books they're talking about downloading are all free on the internet, and they're not exactly current YA literature, but the point seems to be that using technology, i.e. pda's, will get the kids excited about reading."I see you hooking students you would not get with a normal book," said former Rucker Stewart teacher Sue Cooper, who persuaded the parent-teacher organization to fork out for the e-books last spring. "The ultimate goal is to hook kids on reading any way you can." And my favorite quote... "Some parents questioned whether kids would read a whole book off of a Palm Pilot," she said. "But they sit for hours looking at a game, so kids would probably do it." I'm not so sure about that. Personally, I like having a book on my Visor, for times when I have to sit in a waiting room, for example, but I buy current literature to read that way. Not that kids shouldn't be be reading Verne and Alcott, but if they don't have lots of choices for reading material, the novelty of using the technology this way will wear off pretty quickly. Maybe if we reformat the classics as comics and then put them on a pda....(just kidding).
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