NDLI: Teachers’ thoughts on e-readers in the elementary school classroom

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Zipke, Marcy
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Despite the popularity of e-readers and the enthusiasm of some for their use in secondary education, their utility in elementary education has not yet been systematically explored. Some advantages and disadvantages to teaching elementary literacy with e-readers are identified here. A convenience sample of ten teachers from a variety of different types of elementary schools and classrooms who were e-reader novices read a chapter of a grade-appropriate book on a Kindle and evaluated its use for their students. The teachers gave their opinions and ideas on how the devices could be implemented. Three specific technological affordances of an e-reader that carry pedagogical implications are discussed: the text-to-speech and dictionary functions, and the idea of unlimited access to books.
Starting Page	421
Ending Page	441
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13602357
Journal	Education and Information Technologies
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737608
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-02-14
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	e-readers New literacies Kindles Elementary reading Computers and Education Educational Technology User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Education (general) Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Library and Information Sciences E-learning

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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