Sunday, November 25, 2007

PLN 21

I chose to read a post titled Three to think about by Karl Fisch. It talks about the new device called Kindle e-book Reader from Amazon. This revolutionary electronic has many uses.
  • Listen to your class lecture by just tapping on your handwritten notes.
  • View & listen to your notes on your PC and search by keyword.
  • Email your written & audio notes to your classmates or study group.
  • Translate a word or phrase by simply writing it on paper.
  • Download one or more languages to your pen computer.
  • Practice your pronunciation by tapping on a word and listening
  • Write & send a message directly from your notebook.
  • Create & send an animated voice message from your paper.
  • Post a message, drawing or animation (with voice) to your blog or Facebook profile.
  • Read a book of your choice

What matters: This is what education has been waiting for. This is one of the biggest steps into the future for eduaction. Just imagine schools without school book but Kindle e-book readers instead. Everything would be so much different in the classroom. It would also be so much easier to study. You can record your teachers lecture and then when you study you can just listen to the recording and study from it that way. Students can also share notes and do group projects so much easier by sending a messgae directly from your notebook and email your notes or projects to other students.

What matters to me: This will be a huge step forward into the future for classrooms now. Soon classes wont need anything but technology to do school work. We wont need to carry school books around but instead we can carry around our Kindle e-book and it will contain everything. We wont even need backpacks anymore. But before I leap to far into the future I need to think about if this new device will even succeed because I always see commericals for things like these and yet no one ever buys them. But they werent so advanced like the kindle e-book is. It has so many more features than the other devices created by Sony.

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