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Old 04-27-2012, 08:39 PM   #1
fjtorres
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ebook readers (Kindles) in African education

Kindles may not be optimized for educational use but they certainly can be useful:
http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/t...-kindle-739509

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The study put 600 Kindles into the hands of kids and tracked how they were used, how they changed teaching in the area, and how they affected literacy. The results were immensely positive, though not without caveats.

Teachers were able to create much more appropriate lesson plans and get up-to-date textbooks and resources. Kids were able to learn how to use the devices quickly and adapted to them very well, leading to improved test scores and literacy in general. And amazingly, only 2 of the 600 devices were lost or stolen.
There is clearly a crying need for plastic substrate screens for this type of reader use. Soon... soon...
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