Way to start school: Get students to read The Maze Runner, then go to the movie
We know that reluctant readers like book-movies — that is to say, books that are also movies. Even better are book-movies-to-be. Students can read the bo...
Category: Pageturner
Pageturner catalyzes young people’s curiosity and independence by connecting them with an unlimited library of digital books. We currently serve elementary, middle, and high school students in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Come on: I dare you!
Tonight I was fooling around with the Kindle Classroom Project’s Amazon Wishlist — adding some stuff, taking some stuff off, and getting the list r...
Here are some of my ideas for this year and the Kindle Classroom Project, 2014-15
Summer is a great time to reflect, take stock, and figure out next steps for the Kindle Classroom Project. Because so many of you are generous donors to the pr...
Promote reading: Give a student access to a Kindle and 500 books for $40 a year!
Today I was doing some number crunching, and I calculated that the Kindle Classroom Project costs about $40 per student per year. The money, donated by generou...
Why Kindle Unlimited isn’t a great match for the Kindle Classroom Project (for now)
Last week, Amazon unveiled Kindle Unlimited, its new book subscription service. A “Netflix for Books,” Kindle Unlimited lets you borrow as many boo...