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Digital BooksJanel Labron
EDU 290Tuesday, Thursday 9:30-10:45
Digital storybooks/textbooks Taking over Teachers/students
Introduction
goXunuReviews
“Digital textbooks offer various interactive functions, and provide the learner with a combination of textbooks, reference books, workbooks, dictionaries and multimedia contents such as video clips, animations, and virtual reality, both at school and at home, without the constraints of time and space.” Wikipedia
Textbooks Storybooks
What is a digital book?
Read on E-Book Readers or Laptops They are lightweight “Open source” software What to do with the media College Benifits
How do they work?
How students use it Teachers benefits Environmental Adjust to fit students needs. (board, laptop,
print outs)
How going digital is good!
Certain software Outdated computers Purchase E-Book Readers Harder to read Digital divide
How going digital is bad!
Looking into K-12
What is Legislature doing?
Directions this is taking them.
State funding Approval/Dissaproval
All schools 2013 Rich/Poor Certain courses online
Trials Few online courses Teachers using it in their classrooms instead administrators
What schools are doing now.
The New York Times◦ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/
09textbook.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 The Washington Post
◦ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101802360_2.html
Wikipedia◦ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Textbook
Web References
Wikipedia◦ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DT_USE1.png
Flickr◦ http://www.flickr.com/photos/43602175@N06/407
0018782/
ClipArt
All photos are hyperlinked to the site also.
Photo references