Kindle Classroom Project featured in Kappan!
I am very excited to announce that Phi Delta Kappan has published an article I wrote about using Kindles in the classroom. The April 2014 edition includes R...
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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.
The Apartheid of Children’s Literature
Laura, my friend and sustaining donor of the Kindle Classroom Project, sent me a New York Times op-ed this morning that decried the lack of people of color in ...
Kindlers’ thoughts about reading on Kindles
Today I had a meeting at lunch with some of the Kindlers in Hayward. The students are doing a great job reading (10 books so far this year, on average) and kee...
Research on e-readers in schools (#1)
Recently I rediscovered the excellent electronic databases at the San Francisco Public Library, which means I can get access to JSTOR and do other nerdy things...
Kindles break. The case for an insurance plan.
It’s inevitable. Kindles are fragile, particularly in the hands of 14-year-olds. Every once in a while, a Kindle gets broken. I used to go crazy when thi...