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Related: ReadingWhy teenagers are so resistant to e-readers There seems to be an idea spouted by many working in the media at the moment, that young people are giving up on traditional media. The BBC took BBC Three off our TV screens recently as it moves online to further target that lucrative 16-24 demographic. The BBC Trust claimed that there was “clear public value in moving BBC Three online, as independent evidence shows younger audiences are watching more online and watching less linear TV”. E is for Enhanced: 8 Enhanced Ebooks Worth Checking Out Ebooks are no longer relegated to just text on a screen. The books we read on our edevices are changing thanks to enhanced features like audio and video. When the first Kindle came out in 2007, many of us wondered at its ability to fit dozens of books on such a small device. Over the past four years, Amazon and other ebook reader manufacturers, like Barnes & Noble, have continued to impress us with each update. And then, of course, there's the Apple iPad, which changed everything for ereaders when it came along in 2010. Allowing for video and audio playback, the iPad could do things other ereaders could not.
A Curriculum Staple: Reading Aloud to Teens Dana Johansen, a teacher at the Greenwich (CT) Academy, reads to eighth graders.Photo courtesy of Greenwich Academy. Every year, Beth Aviv, a high school English teacher in Westchester County, NY, asks her students, “How many of you were read to by a parent when you were little?” Last year, only a quarter of the class raised their hands. Aviv discovered these students were starved for storytelling. The Digital Networked Textbook: Is It Any Different? Let's speculate that before this year's cohort of first-year teachers retires from math education more than 50% of American classrooms will feature 1:1 technology. That's a conservative prediction – both in the timeline and the percentage – and it's more than enough to make me wonder what makes for good curricula in a 1:1 classroom. What are useful questions to ask? Here's the question I ask myself whenever I see new curricula crop up for digital networked devices like computer, laptops, tablets, and phones. Is it any different?
I Am Not My Disability: Outstanding Books For and About Young People with Disabilities - National Reading Campaign National Reading Campaign Every two years, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) chooses outstanding books for and about young people with disabilities. This biennial selection draws attention to books published around the world that address special needs and situations and which encourage inclusion at every level. Outstanding titles, including the one below, become part of The IBBY Collection of Books for Young People with Disabilities. This one-of-a-kind collection is located in Canada at North York Central Library, part of the Toronto Public Library system.
Tim Waterstone Predicts eBooks Will Decline. Also, Horseless Carriages are just a Fad Tim Watersone, founder of the UK bookstore chain, had an old geezer moment at the Oxford Literary Festival last week. The Telegraph is reporting that Waterstone has predicted that ebooks would decline: The so-called e-book “revolution” will soon go into decline, the founder of Waterstones has said, insisting that the traditional physical book is here to stay.Tim Waterstone, who founded the bookshop chain in 1982, argued that the printed word was far from dead and Britain’s innate love of literature had made books one of the most successful consumer products ever.He added that he had heard and read “more garbage about the strength of the e-book revolution than anything else I’ve known”.…“I think you read and hear more garbage about the strength of the e-book revolution than anything else I’ve known,” Mr Waterstone told the audience in Oxford. If you go read the original article you’ll see that the Telegraph mentions that the UK ebook market was worth £300 million in 2013.
Why kids still need ‘real books’ to read — and time in school to enjoy them Nancie Atwell is the renowned founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning, an award-winning non-profit independent K-8 demonstration school in Edgecomb, Maine, where she teaches seventh- and eighth-grade writing, reading and history. She is the author of numerous books, including the classic “In the Middle: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents,” which has inspired teachers for years, and she has won numerous awards, including the first-ever $1 million Global Teacher Prize given earlier this year by the Varkey Foundation. Atwell’s school has a national reputation for its research-based literacy methods which focus on engaging and challenging students while fostering relationships between faculty and parents. A hallmark of the school are the collections of books, carefully selected by adults, from which students can choose. Ladies and gentlemen: I’m honored to be speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative.
Paper vs digital reading is an exhausted debate The digital revolution is going into a decline, Tim Waterstone told the Oxford literary festival. Well, it's an attention-grabbing statement, ideally suited to our culture of assertive headlines, but it's probably not true. That's not to say that the rapid growth of digital will necessarily continue, either, certainly not in markets that are already saturated with handheld devices. Why? Because the future is – as William Gibson told us quite a long time ago now – not evenly distributed. In fact, if one thing is ubiquitous these days it would seem to be liminality.
10 Reasons Nonreaders Don't Read — And How to Change Their Minds Children are not born with a natural aversion to reading. We know that. We see what happens when we introduce toddlers to books. They fall in love. Why Blended Learning Is Better Blended learning is a buzz word that’s been thrown around quite a bit lately and brings together the best of both classroom learning and elearning. In fact it seems to be the ideal solution all-around as it appeals to all learning styles, circumstances, needs and demands. It combines the support of classroom learning with the flexibility of elearning. Blended learning has been defined by Innosight Institute as “a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path or pace.” Proponents of blended learning argue that by incorporating ‘asynchronous internet communication technologies’ into courses a ‘simultaneous independent and collaborative learning experience’ is facilitated, and this contributes hugely to student satisfaction and success in such courses.[1] So, why choose blended learning over elearning, or face-to-face?
In Defense of Free Choice Independent Reading “We now have a quarter century of studies that document three findings: literacy blooms wherever children have access to books they want to read, permission to choose their own, and time to get lost in them.” -Nancie Atwell I was mesmerized by stories when I was a child. When entranced by a delightful book, I would spend hours devouring the narrative, getting lost in the world of the characters and wishing I could step into their world for just a moment.
5 Minute Librarian: 7 Ways to Rediscover Your Love for Reading The worst has happened. You are a librarian, but you have found that you just cannot pick up another book. Maybe you are in a reading slump. Maybe you devoured too many books and your appetite has hit a wall... for a few months now. Maybe the pressures of reading during your downtime (which was never much to begin with) has finally broken you. The Scientific Reason Actual Books Are So Much More Memorable Than E-Books We all know the cycle: If you want to get clicks on the Internet, take something people love and tell them they’re doing it wrong. It’ll prompt reads from people worried they’re doing it wrong, shares from early adopters who agree with you, hate-reads from people who disagree, and maybe a counter-take or two from people who were so flummoxed by your argument they had to publish a reply, like this one. Such is the case with “Why you should quit reading paper books,” a perfectly titled troll from Andy Sparks, a startup cofounder and Medium blogger. "I believe everyone should quit reading print books almost entirely," he opines in the opening paragraph of the trending piece.
The Ways Librarians Inspire a Love of Books in Reluctant Readers There’s a well-known quote by Frank Serafini that goes, “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” And yet, as a concerned parent, grandparent, or caregiver, how do you ensure that the “right book” gets into the hands of your reluctant reader? Why not start at the library? Expert assistance is always available from ever-helpful and energetic librarians and staff who are specially-trained to help readers (even reluctant ones) find the book that is right for them. Sure, when you arrive at the library with your child, you may feel nervous or intimidated to talk to the librarians, but please allow me to put your mind at ease — the librarian’s main purpose is helping people! Whether the librarian is at a service desk or roaming among the books, they’ll want to interview you and your child to assess what the issue may be preventing reading success.
Really good insights and wordings on the "landscape" perception that a physical book offers by cberlin Sep 11