PAPER OR PLASTIC?The future of books in the classroom

FUTURE OF BOOKS?

“The physical medium cannot be distributed to enough people” Nicholas Negroponte, Founder one laptop per

child

Developing countries may actually be faster than developed countries Cell phones in Uganda and Cambodia

SO WHAT NOW?Tablet PCs vs e-Readers,

WHICH TO CHOOSE

Internet Entertainment

media Document Creation Replaces laptop

Book Reading Newspapers/

Magazine Cost

Tablet E-Reader

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Start at $500 up to $900

Intuitive functions

One of the fastest in its class

Strong support and following

Battery life, 6-10 hours continuous use

Soon to run OS 4.0

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Said to cost between $400 and $500

Runs Windows 7 Home Premium

Intel Core 2 Duo processor

Virtual Keyboard as well as connectivity for real keyboard and docking station available, which can fold over the screen

Styllus with TFT-LCD touchscreen with 1024×758 resolution and 2450 dpi input resolution,

Most accurate digital note-taking devices around.

Battery life 10 hours continuous use

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Sub $500 projected Price

Runs Windows 7

1.66GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor

It has 2GB of RAM, 32 GB of SSD storage, and the finalized version is expected to have two USB ports, an HDMI and a webcam

1024×600-resolution

MSI added its own Wind Touch UI

Battery Life to be 8 hours

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“Lower price range of price for current tablets”

Property QNX OS

OpenGL

1GHz dual-core chip

Front and back-facing camera for videoconferencing

1GB RAM

1080p high-definition video playback

Wi-Fi, and supports HTML5 and Flash-based video

HDMI out

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Kindle

$140 for lowest end

Read in low light or high light

Easy buy and download of books from anywhere

Most titles, 750,000 unique titles, not including public domain titles (Pre 1923)

Nook

$250 for color version with wifi

Read in low light and high light

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Juergen Neffe’s vision of the future of books

Self publish books

Creative user created content

Unique reading experiences

Forums for sharing information or reviews

SO WHAT?In the Classroom

TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM

Slow refresh rate of e-Ink displays

Inability to load PDFs over the network

Viewing only one text at a time

Problems converting documents to work well.

Illinois Institute of Technology 550 freshman to

receive iPad Oklahoma State

School of Media and Strategic Communications and the Spears School of Business

Kindle Ipad

WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

E-reader? Simple Long battery life Low cost Slow B&W

Tablet PC? Powerful – Multimedia capabilities Document creation Business users Powerful OS