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Originally Posted by MatthewM
I just wanted to chip in a slight variation on this theme. We don't have any ebook readers, but I've had some good luck in turning some of my students onto dailyreader.net. It delivers books over email, so it kind of sneaks the reading into the normal day of the kids that spend all their time on the computer.
That said, I'd love if we could budget in readers for all the kids but I just don't see it happening. |
LOVE that dailyreader site!! Nice way to, as you say, sneak some reading materials into a kids daily routine.
I actually can see schools finding a way to use ereaders and buy them letting parents pay a small amount every month/annually to help defray the costs. Say, $50/yr or whatever for a couple years. ALmost every family would be able to afford this cost. Initially though I could only see pilot programs fully subsuduzed by publishers/device makers. And that is only because of few titles being available and, well, people do not fully understand the devices yet. But the mfg & publishers benefit simply by imprinting kids on using a reader as a part of daily life. Far better than their PSP & cell phones. Heck even add so sort of chat/text messaging to the devices over the school's internal net or even via http...