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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I'm sure  I'm equally sure that there are more than a few old-school teachers at all levels in the education system, who will be adamantly opposed. You may say fire those teachers who are not up to helping their Grade one students search with all of their various devices but we know that isn't going to happen and I don't really think it should. |
Oddly, I've seen quite a few primary (K-3) students who have been helping teachers with technology. If nothing else, the kids are not scared of breaking something.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
As an aside, what University is your Great niece attending? Last summer I worked with a 24 year old student attending the University of Victoria and majoring in English. She has never used an ereader and looked a bit aghast when I offered to lend her one of mine. She has a laptop and an iPad so is not a complete technophobe, and very Google literate, just totally not interested. Currently she is working her way through the classics and is fully aware that she can get most of them free, but despite the fact that she is paying her own tuition and has loans to pay, is just not interested and seems to feel that she is in a majority group in this regard at UVIC at least among English Majors.
How do your great niece's professor's deal with that I wonder?
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She's attending UBC and is planning to follow her mother into dentistry. She is a technophile so has no issues with using ebooks but there are some students in the class who are not as fond of technology and have gone for the deadtree alternative. On the other hand, the professor had no qualms in using ebooks for the last couple of years. Considering the traditionally high cost of deadtree textbooks ( a tradition which most of the textbook publishers seem to be upholding for ebooks), the cost of a ereader is not a big chunk of the book budget.
Regards,
David