E-Books in the classroom

With many classrooms around the country, textbooks are a thing of the past. A new device called the E-Book is being used instead of reading from paper. This is an electronic device that you can buy books to download on. Digital Owl is one of the first businesses to use this device and put it in some Florida schools with laptops and electronic books. There are a lot of controversies over these new E-Books because some studies have shown that there is a decline in speed and comprehension while the students are reading their assigned texts on these. There have been more studies that have also said that children become more tired when they are reading off of the screen instead of off print on paper. I feel like this is a very beneficial tool to a classroom because some students may like having this instead of lugging around a 5lb book. This brings up another advantage to these E-Books; they are very light and easy to use on the go. I have known people to use these devices when they are driving because their E-Books/Kindle's read aloud. Personally, I believe that these will soon be in every school around the entire country and children will learn to love them.
Here is another article relating to the E-Books and how they work.

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