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E-Readers: A Classroom Innovation
Heather Page
E-Readers: What are they?• E-readers are portable devices designed to display
digital versions of written material from books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed sources.
• Some e-readers allow users to access the internet.
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7058.pdf
E-Readers: Advantages…• As printed textbooks are becoming obsolete and
textbook publishing companies are moving toward online textbooks, the e-reader would make it possible for students to access an online textbook at their own seats.
• E-readers can store thousands of books which would alleviate the weight of textbooks off of students.
• E-readers can also allow multiple students to read the same book at the same time.
E-readers: What research suggests…• Using e-readers in the classroom, boys rated reading
more valuable and boys had a more positive attitude toward reading.
• There seems to be a greater passion for reading using the e-reader because it involves technology.
• E-readers can reduce the cost buying textbooks and library books.
E-readers: Disadvantages…• Costly
• Need an on-site technology person that can repair e readers
• All books in one place-if you lose the e reader, you lose all books
• Can not type on e readers
• Unreliable life span
E-readers: Classroom Utilization…• http://www.theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/kindles
(kindles and what books are loaded on them)
• http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/going-digital-using-book-30623.html (going digital: using e readers to enhance reading)
E Readers Adoption S-Curve
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Statistics did not begin to be recorded for those Americans that owned an e reader until 2009. For the entire year of 2006, 5% of Americans owned an e reader. For the year of 2010, 18% of Americans owned an e reader. In 2011,279% of Americans owned an e reader, and in 2012, 49% of Americans owned some type of e reader.
Technology Specialist as Change Agents• Tech specialist would introduce the E Reader to the faculty.
-show the teachers the benefits of the e reader and how they can be of use.
-has a few volunteers use the e readers in their classes and then discuss what they learned (this would be the innovators and early adopters, mostly the tech savvy teachers and young teachers)
-discuss any problems that teachers may have
- allow teachers to share the benefits that they found in using e readers
Technology Specialist as Change Agent
-work with teachers to incorporate the use of e readers
-teachers share things have done with the e readers in their classrooms once each month ( this would be for the laggards, most likely older teachers that are set in their ways)
-continue to work with teachers to incorporate the e reader effectively
Technology Specialist as Change Agent
-work with teachers to incorporate the use of e readers
-teachers share things have done with the e readers in their classrooms once each month ( this would be for the laggards, most likely older teachers that are set in their ways)
-continue to work with teachers to incorporate the e reader effectively
Why adopt E Readers???• Schools are increasingly demonstrating a desire to
utilize e-readers
• They create or retain a student’s interest in reading
• E Readers that have a text to Speech function give an extra tool to teachers for kids who learn better by hearing facts than by reading them
The need for E Readers:
• More textbooks being made for online access only
• Increase of the use of technology in the classroom
• The new Common Core Standards pushes for the use of technology
• Increases student engagement and interest in reading
Why implement this new innovation?
• Motivate students to read, while downloading new books and series instantaneously and cheaply through the use of an e-reader.
• Embracing e-readers is a growing trend across the country among libraries and classrooms.
• A good way to keep up with purchasing new books, especially new entries in a series, instead of waiting the average five weeks before the library can get them in stock.
• For example, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, a popular young-adult science-fiction book, is available at Barnes & Noble in hardcover for $17.99, paperback for $8.99 and in an e-book format for $5.