Read Pads has an article about a school district in Florida that has decided to purchase Amazon Kindle’s for all of their students in order to save on textbook costs. The Ledger reports that the school is happy to have made the switch to digital editions of books.
One bad reading habit – skipping over big words – can no longer be justified by excuses like, “I didn’t have a dictionary,” because the Kindle has a built-in dictionary, which displays definitions for highlighted words. “It helps with reading comprehension,” said senior Bennie Niles, 17.
Another feature he is excited about is the text-to-speech capability. Press a button, and a well-inflected computer voice says the word aloud.
And learning curve? For students who do not know a world without mobile computing, no big deal. “It’s just like texting,” said senior Gabrielle Adams, 17, about inputting notes. “And everybody knows how to text,” Niles said. Read the full article here.
