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Certain software Outdated computers Purchase E-Book Readers Harder to read Digital divide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

Persiatj

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