Digital books
Hello everyone .
Today we had a very interesting hour during the lecture ,the subject was
digital books and how can we use them ,the professor there demonstrated a whole
new process ,a whole new program about digital text books how can we create
exercises,how to treat different topics in class with smartboards.
Actually ,the software the professor demonstrated to us was thoroughly interesting ,really helfpful I must say, I enjoyed
the whole hour especially the part of audio video exercises and many others that
were shared there .
But what are these digital textbooks ?
A digital
textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as
the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts. Digital textbooks are a major
component of technology-based education reform.
They
may offer better access to quality texts in the developing world. For this
reason, many schools and colleges around the world have made the implementation
of digital textbooks a central component of education policy. For example, in
South Korea, reading materials in all public schools are digitized since 2015. In the United States, the Federal
Communications Commission aimed for
every student to be able to have access to e-texts by 2017,and they did it for
most of them .
However, the transition
to e-textbooks is costly, complex and controversial. It is surely not easy.
Students express a strong preference for printed
materials in many surveys and across cultures. Many interconnected factors,
from device access, to digital literacy, to teaching methods affect the
implementation of digital textbooks in the classroom.
There are many advantages of digital textbooks, I think we
all agree that they can make the hour interesting for real . They may offer
lower costs, make it easier to monitor student progress. Open source e-textbooks
may offer the opportunity to create free textbooks for different basic subjects, or
give individual teachers the opportunity to create e-texts for their own
classrooms, so that we the teachers of the future can help not only our student
but ourselves as well so as to conduct a good hour an entertaining one,because
we surely know student pay a lot more attention if they like what is being
presented . So if you make it interesting and attractive for what eye meets
,make them interact for sure you will have their attention.
I find them very interesting but can’t deny as well
that the transition to these digital books is not easy and it reqiures a lot of
hard work and effort especially in our schools.But as long as we try to use these
ebooks ,try to include them in our schools the better the quality will be.There
is always place for improvement.At least that’s my personal opinion .
Thank you!
Here is the link of an interesting video I wanted to
share.
Hello Aida .I found the link interesting . I do agree with you that using digital textbooks can make an hour interesting .As you also mentioned is not that easy and it requires a lot of hard work . So let's hope for the best.Good job.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment Klesta appreciate it! Let’s hope for the best .Glad to know you found it interesting.
DeleteHello Aida
ReplyDeleteI find it really interesting as a useful way to teach students. They actually love these kind of methodology, music, videos and learning through games.
Thank you Kleona, for sharing your opinion.
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ReplyDeleteHello Aida
ReplyDeletei really like your post. i agree with all the positive effects of using e-books but also i want to add the fact that if each student has e e-book then there will be not need for heavy bags with a lot of books.
Thank you for the comment Ida ! I agree for sure that one of the advantages is the removal step by step of those heavy bags we are used to have with us from the beginning.
DeleteUsing E-books it sure is interesting and it would benefit in the long process at the economical view however i believe that as interesting and helpful it is that much challenging can become for the old generation of teachers that were not born into a technological thriving century like he most are. This books however sure are the future and whoever wants to be part of the future needs to go with the flow of time. I wanted to thank you for the information that you provided to us. Well done!
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