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29 Oct 09

A Kindle for Every Student - US News and World Report

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In a proposal released last month, the group argues that a K-12 education system where each student has an E-book reader like Amazon's Kindle is "inevitable" and that we shouldn't wait "a decade or two" to achieve it.
Thomas Z. Freedman, the primary author of the paper, writes that having a "Kindle in every backpack" (the title of the proposal) is not just an educational gimmick but could improve education quality and save mone
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- For less money than is spent on conventional textbooks, E-textbooks, over time, could deliver a regularly updated, interactive, and 21st-century education to our children
- Only 5 percent of parents dislike the concept of E-textbooks
- Not so fast, some education experts say. Jing Lei, assistant professor of instructional design, development, and evaluation at Syracuse University's school of education and author of the book The Digital Pencil, is doubtful that five years from now the Kindle (if such a device is still on the market) would offer the same advantages that it does today
- "Whenever something new pops up, the immediate, knee-jerk reaction is, 'Oh, we should do this .' We never really step back and ask ourselves what problem exactly are we trying to solve.
- "Kids' ability to stay on task and focused has nothing to do with type of vehicle by which they're consuming their education," Gregory says. "Bringing in another gadget will only exacerbate that problem. And how will the teacher control or monitor what the student is supposedly reading?"
- 99 percent of whose students already have computers at home

The Amazon Kindle could dramatically improve US education | Paul Allen (the lesser)

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As a frequent business traveller, I just bring my Kindle instead of packing half a dozen books with me
But even though I love books I always first check to see if the book is available for Kindle, because the advantages of having books on my Kindle outweigh for me the advantages of having a physical book.
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- There is a setting that allows Amazon to store all of your Kindle notes, comments, and bookmarks in the cloud, so that if you ever lose your Kindle or if it breaks, all of your personalized content can be re-downloaded.
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- I really do look forward to future versions of Kindle that turn book reading into a very social experience; but I truly hope that Bezos never turns this device into a multi-purpose computing device that supports games and other applications. I think that would ruin the potential of this device.
- I think the best way to do that would be for states to purchase Kindles for every student (I’d say 7th-12th grade) in their education system, and to provide great age appropriate books for these students every year. Perhaps states should also carve out at least 30-60 minutes of reading time every day, in the classroom, for students to use their Kindles
- If the Kindle ever becomes a multi-purpose portable computing device, with downloadable games and other applications, it would in my mind destroy its potential to become the educational device of the future, which encourages and invites millions of students to read the great books–because it would be so easy for students to be distracted by everything else it offered.
- . But please don’t be tempted to make this a device for music, games, or fun. We already have plenty of those.

28 Oct 09

Amazon Kindle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 for reading e-books and other digital media.
Three hardware devices, known as "Kindle", "Kindle 2," and "Kindle DX" support this platform, as does an iPhone application called "Kindle for iPhone".
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- Amazon's first offering of Kindle in November 2007 sold out in five and a half hours^[10] and the device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008.
- On February 9, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle 2 which became available for purchase on February 23, 2009 for the price of $359. The Kindle 2 features 16-level grayscale display, improved battery life, 20 percent faster page-refreshing, a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud,^[13] and overall thickness reduced from 0.8 to 0.36 inches (9.1 mm).
- On May 6, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle DX^[21] which retails for $489.^[22] It is the first Kindle model with an accelerometer, automatically rotating pages between landscape and portrait orientations if the device is turned on its side.
- Users can download content from Amazon and some other Kindle content providers in the proprietary Kindle format (AZW), or load content in various formats from a computer.
- Some users have complained that the lighter text has caused eye strain or mild headaches after reading for long periods of time

22 Oct 09

YouTube - The Amazon Kindle

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12 Oct 09

Reader vs. Kindle | Sony | Sony Style USA

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