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"All learning is social. We develop new understandings from each other. Print, whether digital or on paper, happens to be one of the ways people communicate. Bridging these two worlds through social media such as Google+, Twitter, and Edmodo gives us that authentic experience of what read readers do."
“Just improving poor children’s access to books they can read and want to read may seem too simple an idea for improving reading achievement. But the evidence is clear. When children from low-income families are given the opportunity to select books for summer reading they will read those books during the summer months.”
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
As I was downloading my first book (thinking, “Hm, instant access to reading material might not be a bad thing.”), S put a small envelope on the table next to me. It was a gift card. “You can still get physical books, too,” he assured me. “This isn’t meant to replace that.”
And it won’t. But it is handy. And anything that keeps reading material within the grasp of my fingers can’t be all bad, can it?
By offering students systematic instruction and support in using e-readers for personal and collaborative learning purposes, we will also be fostering their motivation to learn and go after their own questions, goals, and interests. E-readers have the potential to make the reading and learning process interactive, motivating, and meaningful. However, simply adopting e-readers is not a guarantee for increased independent reading and improvement of the reading process. Success with e-readers depends on our ability to find ways to use them in the classroom to support, extend, and reframe student learning.