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from the everybody-learns-their-own-way dept.
E-books are increasingly being used in classrooms by children as young as three - and they are making a big difference to the reading habits of boys. But there are concerns the expansion of electronic devices in schools may undermine the position of traditional paper books.
E-books, where stories are loaded onto a tablet or laptop, are used in about two-thirds of schools across America, says the School Library Journal.
But their use in English schools is sporadic.
The National Literacy Trust has been conducting research over the past year to understand their impact.
At 40 schools across the country, 800 children were encouraged to use e-books and share their feelings.
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The average project ran for four months. But over that period on average boys made 8.4 months of reading progress using them, compared to just 7.2 months of progress among girls.Reluctant readers also made good progress, with a 25% increase in boys reading daily.
Why do boys respond better to E-books than girls?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @09:33AM
> Or are you the sort of person that buys all your videogames a second time because your computer broke?
Well, I'm the kind of person who has to buy a video game a second, third, or fourth time because the old game is not compatible with the new OS, new hardware, and/or new environment, and all the old OSes or hardware are essentially locked out from from being useful for similar reasons.
Are you saying tablets are magically immune from this?
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday February 08 2016, @03:57PM
Perhaps the insinuation is that Apple and Google took the new operating systems of tablets as a chance to do API versioning right, to minimize incompatibility of new hardware with old applications.