tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post7616636995935276990..comments2024-03-27T06:09:20.323+00:00Comments on EdCompBlog: eBooks can damage your reading?Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08614417017549146281noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post-37326520512719706622013-09-28T09:38:24.935+01:002013-09-28T09:38:24.935+01:00Thanks for the well-thought article. I’m in fact a...Thanks for the well-thought article. I’m in fact at work right now!<br />"<a href="" rel="nofollow">ma international relations distance learning india</a><br /><a href="" rel="nofollow">industrial safety courses</a><br /><a href="" rel="nofollow">yoga and naturopathy courses in mumbai</a><br /><a href="" rel="nofollow">distance engineering courses</a><br /><a href="" rel="nofollow">distance learning programs</a>"<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10475903941911839526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post-88904284269607380472012-01-09T10:25:40.274+00:002012-01-09T10:25:40.274+00:00Hello Kenneth
The points you raise more or less e...Hello Kenneth<br /><br />The points you raise more or less echo my concerns with the NYTimes blog post and in part prompted my post here. I too tried to chase up the original paper but couldn't find it. My feeling is, the blog writer at NYTimes had decided what they wanted to say and then looked for evidence to back it up - something I would never do... obviously. :-) The fact that they could only find a five year-old press release says a lot.<br /><br />Reading around the press release suggests they were looking at "toy" type devices such as LeapFrog rather than dedicated readers such as the Kindle.<br /><br />Via facebook, one of our retired librarians referred me to "Are Ebooks Any Good?" by Guernsey, Lisa in School Library Journal, v57 n6 p28-32 Jun 2011 though the focus of that research is on whether picture eBooks are a good investment for elementary school libraries rather than on parent/child reading experiences, but it is more up-to-date and you can at least read the full paper. I think there is the potential for some interesting research on eBooks and the development of early reading skills. For example, does a school like Cedars in Greenock, with it's 1-to-1 iPad project use the iPads to develop early reading skills, do they still use books and reading schemes or do they use some sort of blended approach?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08614417017549146281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post-39639256955763546592012-01-08T19:14:15.385+00:002012-01-08T19:14:15.385+00:00HNY David.
I was curious about the source of the e...HNY David.<br />I was curious about the source of the evidence from the Temple Times online and tried to find a published paper that the article was based on. Unfortunately this article appears to be selected extracts from a paper presented at a conference but that the presentation never manifested itself as a published paper. So it's impossible to validate the claims or to find out what 'e-book' they used in their research.<br /><br />I'm confused as to how an e-book or p-book can modify parent's reading behaviour. Surely these books don't specify how the parent should read to their child. They don't tell you what accents to adopt for different characters, or questions to ask at appropriate points, or tangents and asides to make at appropriate points in the text.<br /><br />I have colleagues that specialise in picture books research and I'm amazed at the variety of paper books that children can experience/read. Looking at the shelf I see books of different sizes and pages and covers and images and structure. There isn't one size of paper book that is best so why do the Temple 'researchers' think that there's a unifying concept of the ebook. When I read the quote about the ebook reading to a child and them playing games i'm reminded of 'Arthur's Teacher Troubles' which displayed text and a voice read the text and then the child could click on various parts of the picture to see the animation. This is obviously not the ebooks of the kindle generation.<br /><br />I wonder if someone claimed that paperbacks damage children's reading rather than hardbacks?Kenneth...https://www.blogger.com/profile/08085977493501373065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post-49423374735688296982012-01-04T19:20:44.494+00:002012-01-04T19:20:44.494+00:00Hello Mr O'Neill
I'm ashamed to say that ...Hello Mr O'Neill<br /><br />I'm ashamed to say that not only did I not see the BBC programme, I didn't even know it existed! Sounds interesting. ...and I hadn't thought of the additional needs issues. Thanks.<br /><br /><br />Hello Mr Mosher<br /><br />You need to get yourself a tablet. Reading from a phone is doable but painful. Reading from a tablet device really works. And now that Android devices are nearly as good as the iPad you could get a second class experience instead of a third class experience. :-) {Just messing with you!} The VAT thing is daft but getting them to remove a tax in the current climate seems as likely as getting you to buy an Apple product! <br /><br />As for eBook verses pBook - I still like having the physical paper based object but have found I have read significantly more eBooks than pBooks in the last year.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08614417017549146281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post-56430046009958524182012-01-04T15:49:52.349+00:002012-01-04T15:49:52.349+00:00I've seen the pricing issue before. Heck I'...I've seen the pricing issue before. Heck I've seen ebooks being sold for more than the *hardback* version.<br /><br />My main gripe isn't with Amazon's pricing per se, but with the government's decision that for some bizarre reason an ebook attracts VAT whereas a regular book doesn't.<br /><br />I admit I'm new to the ebook idea as anything more than a novelty as I don't really have a device suitable for reading them on. It's great being able to pull out my mobile and plough through "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" when I'm stuck somewhere, but it's not the best medium for a long reading session. I'm intending to try it more seriously when I get my tablet sometime soon.<br /><br />I don't see how a different medium can make the effectiveness of reading better or worse, but from a personal point of view I just prefer the "feel" of a real book compared to holding something electronic. Agreed, though, that research is long out of date and could be relating to low-resolution, hard-to-read screens, for instance.Mosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00374548021605224698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407965.post-72008221325730661702012-01-04T14:36:29.277+00:002012-01-04T14:36:29.277+00:00Interesting points here. I would certainly emphasi...Interesting points here. I would certainly emphasise your point regarding 5 years being a very long time in tech, as both development in Kindle and of course iPad demonstrates. eBooks like The Elements on iPad offer a level of interaction, which can be social too, which provides a level of enrichment of experience and understanding which the 2006 research referred to was not in a position to consider. Not sure if you will have caught BBC 1's recent Imagine programme on the book and the eBook, some really interesting views in this area expressed. One point I liked was the comment that to focus on the instrument for communicating information, ie book or eBook , was to focus on the wrong issue, the focus should be on the quality, integrity and value of the information.<br />It may also be worth noting that the benefits of digital for those with various learning difficulties, may make reading with mother/ father a more fruitful experience.John O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07872857318804623159noreply@blogger.com