Trying out a nook. (Don’t tell the Kindles.)
If I’m testing out a nook, do I need to change the name of the Kindle Classroom Project? These are important existential questions. (Also important: Know...
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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.
“Treat your Kindle like your phone.”
Today I gave out 10 new Kindles to ninth graders in San Francisco. It was really fun. One by one, I called each student to the back of the classroom to have a ...
Huge January for the Kindle Classroom Project
After an impressive month of donations, the Kindle Classroom Project is growing at a rapid rate. Contributions in January brought the overall Kindle total to 1...
Will Kindles help the lowest-skilled readers?
We’re about to find out! Beginning next week, a teacher in Hayward will launch a Kindle reading intervention for the eight lowest-performing readers in t...
Pitching Kindles to students is easy
Today I visited a high school in San Francisco to see whether ninth graders there would be interested in reading on Kindles. It was an easy sell. It’s fu...