E-Book Sales Rise in Children’s and Young Adult Categories. E-Book Sales Rise in Children’s and Young Adult Categories. No Difference Between Kids' Comprehension of Ebooks, Print Books, Study Says. SLJ's 2011 Technology Survey: Things Are Changing. Fast. eConfused about eBooks. I’ll be honest: I feel like I have two back-burner issues that need to come to the front burner pronto: really digging into Common Core Standards and eBooks.
Ebooks and School Libraries. In their efforts to implement ebooks, school libraries face a set of challenges that differ from those confronting their public and academic counterparts.
In addition to the struggle they share with other types of libraries to offer current bestselling fiction ebooks, school libraries are also working to secure backlist fiction, curriculum-focused nonfiction, and multiple copies of books for group use. At the same time, however, they are fortunate to have a strong working relationship with many different publishers and vendors that work within the K–12 market. To better explore these challenges and advantages, it helps to consider a few different school library ebook-use scenarios. A common desire in K–12 buildings is to adopt ebook readers as a replacement for costly and heavy printed texts. An English department that considered making this change was stymied by the lack of availability of some of the texts on their reading list. More School Libraries Offer Ebooks; Increased Demand, Rise in Circulation.
The Problem With EBooks. I'm a fan of eBooks and eBook readers in general. And I dislike the fetishization of books as objects. This particular critique of eBooks isn't going to wallow in the supposed luxury of walls of books, or the smell of the paper, or the ability to jot notes on the flyleaf. As far as I'm concerned, the most important part of a book is the words. The physical book is just the box the present comes in. And also, I would like to point out that eBooks can't get mildewed or basement-y. However, in thinking about eBooks lately, I have come across two potential problems. Problem #1: EBook Readers Aren't Free Currently an eBook reader costs several hundred dollars.
Ebook Summit Preview: Should Kids Get Ebooks in School? By Eric Hellman, January 4, 2011 Eric Hellman wonders which is more important, a librarian in every school, or an ereader in every backpack?
Searching for information is NOT like trolling for fish. You know the saying: “Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish and you have fed him for life.” Answer someone’s question, and most likely they’ll go away for today. I thought about this when a librarian friend related to me how she loves working the reference desk. Over the course of his life Mr. Library vs. Jgcc_ebooks_quickreport. Comparing parent-child co-reading on print, basic, and enhanced e-book platforms This QuickReport presents the results of our first QuickStudy exploring parent-child interactions as they read print and digital books together.
We conducted this exploratory study with our SciPlay partners at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York in an effort to tackle some of the questions we have about the growing popularity of e-books among readers of all ages. How do adults and children read e-books compared to print books? How might the nature of parent-child conversations differ across platforms? 143-doiron-en. The learning effectiveness of integrating e-books into elementary school science and technology classes. Schools are turning heads and pages with their e-books. It came as a surprise to some of Mindy Siefert's students that their librarian was not against e-books.
Rather, the Lindbergh schools libraries began circulating electronic versions of fiction titles this year, as well as the portable devices on which to read them. "Reading is reading," said Siefert, a librarian at Lindbergh High School. "As much as we love paper books, our kids are using their devices in every way possible, so why not offer them a way to read?
" Lindbergh is not the only district to turn the page into this new chapter — the popularity of e-books in school libraries has exploded in the last few years, especially among elementary aged students. The district now has nearly 800 fiction titles in e-books. Schools get in touch with digital books. A digital book in every student’s hands in the next five years.
That’s the goal federal officials set out last month, just weeks after Apple announced plans to partner with publishers to offer titles for under $15 and provide a free application that makes it easy for anyone with a Mac to create a digital book. For some in the education field, the announcements signaled a new chapter in the evolution of technology in the classroom and a shift in the nation’s $7 billion-plus textbook market. CDWG - Using E-books in School: Negotiate, Train, Pilot, Expand. 21st Century Classroom: Transforming the Textbook In 21st century classrooms, blackboard chalk is on the endangered list, the pop quiz has been replaced with clicker questions, and bowling alley technology (overhead projector transparencies) has disappeared, thanks to digital projectors and document cameras.
But if you’re going to point to any aspect of the classroom that still hasn’t covered much ground on its trip into the 21st century, it has to be the textbook. This ubiquitous accessory has been beset by editorial controversy as we have seen recently in Texas; has seen consistently high price increases of an average of six percent per year; and still inspires parental derision for the outdated information often portrayed. And then there’s the matter of weight. The heft of textbooks was the subject of a 21-page report written in 2004 in California for the state’s board of education. Realigning the Budget with Netbooks Lorain City Schools is located in a city 35 miles from Cleveland. Are Ebooks Any Good? Do digital books help young kids learn to read,or are they mostly fun and games?
Illustration by Ken Orvidas When Julie Hume, a reading specialist in University City, MO, first saw the potential of a children’s ebook, it was larger than life. The book was projected on a smartboard at the front of a classroom, with huge, easily readable words, brilliant graphics, and an engaging recorded-voice narrator. A teacher trainer stood nearby, demonstrating to Hume and other reading specialists how to pause the narration to point to artwork on the page and ask students questions about what they were hearing. “It gave me chills,” says Hume, who works with third, fourth, and fifth graders who are struggling to read fluently. Hume didn’t have $400 in her budget for an annual subscription to the program, nor was she entirely sure, despite her excitement, that it would make a positive difference to the more than two dozen students she would see in “pull-out” sessions each day.