When I was first asked if I wanted an e-reader I said there was no way that I would never own one of them. Now that I have one I can't put it down. I like the fact that my book is always at my finger tips and that you can do more than just read on it. I have downloaded many books from their free books, and today I downloaded my frist book from the public library. This was a different experience becasue I wasn't able to actually get on my e-reader to download it and will have to wait till I get home to see if it worked. If it did work I will have to down load somemore becasue unlike Amazon you can check out more than one book a month.
I can see how an e-reader could be an important tool in the schools because there is so much that a teacher could do on them. I personally have used an app. to help show students the cycle of the moon. As for letting a student check out an e-reader there would have to be strick guidlines in place for them to be used by the students. The biggest problem I see is how do you keep students from downloading things onto the e-reader that are inappropriate?
Thanks for the insight, I will be interested to know if you were able to download the book and it go to your E-reader. I was able to download my book straight to my iPad through my Kindle account. I agree with you on the strict guidelines that need to placed in order to check out a E-reader. The bright side would be less damage to the actual books, however damage to an E-reader can and would be expensive. In order to keep the students from downloading inappropriate things would be to block them, however I am not sure that is possible! Great question. I will be interested to know if there is an answer!
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of eReader do you use? I love the fact you can download something immediately and don't have to leave in the middle of a snow storm to get your hands on the next book in your favorite series.
ReplyDeleteI was skeptical before buying an e-reader, because I love to read printed books, but now I've changed my mind. I bought a Kindle Fire... it had a good price and I found All you can books, a great site with hundreds of free eBooks. I can't wait to have a little spare time to read them all :D
ReplyDeleteRebecca good news the book downloaded and was waiting for me when I got home.
ReplyDeleteLeslie I have a Kindle Fire and love it. Amazon as been great about things with it also. I had a issue where I ended up with a white line down one side of it and they exchanged it no questions asked.
I'm with you Daina, thanks for the site I will have to look it up.
You have a valid concern and the answer isn't simple. Can you keep students from downloading things that you don't want them to download? It mostly depends on what kind of e-reader it is. maybe for K-12 a cheaper e-reader with more limited functionality to access and download things is best. They shouldn't have a password that will allow them to download things that cost anything, but I suppose there is plenty of free inappropriate stuff that they could download without an account that's linked to a credit card. It's important to know what kind of e-reader your school uses and what a student is capable of doing with it.
ReplyDeleteI notice that you also mentioned using the e-reader as a teacher. I never even thought of that, I just went straight to the possibility of student use and entirely missed the possibilities that are available to teachers to use with projectors class wide. I need a whole new outlook.
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