You Reading Specialist out there, what do you think about E-books in schools? With all the fascinating features it offers to both teachers and students, maybe the Ministry of Education can contemplate replacing traditional texts books with electronic ones.
These are some of the benefits I can think of that I would like to share on this blog.
1. Less cost to tax payers, because buying all the texts books for student to use from infants to standard 5 is a lot. Furthermore the cost for secondary books from form 1 to form 6 is even more.
2. Electronic copies of all the texts students require can fit on a single e-book. Which means the heavy book bags on our children's backs can be eliminated.
3. E-books can also store dictionaries and thesaurus.
4. Students can store fiction and non-fiction books and select any book they require at any time.
5. Many students can read the same book at the same time. No need to wait until the book is returned to the library.
6. Students always have their libraries for reference when they need it.
I can go on and on and I am also sure additional benefits may be added. Therefore I am of the view that serious consideration ought to be given to this venture . However, it should not be done haphazardly and in isolation but rather within a theoretical framework and contextual needs of cost efficiency and proper planning. Using e-books is not beyond our students, but is a motivating tool that can be used to foster and encourage reading the way traditional texts are unable to. Hence, our students can be trained very early to use and care for the e-books to get the most benefits from them.
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I love the title of this post and the name of your blog. I am a bit of a health aware person myself and like to keep a healthy body. We can't deny the mind-body connection when it comes to our health so what you do is very important to any serious learner. Our children are growing up on a very unhealthy diet that is stunting their capacity to do so much. Their learning disabilities stem from so much more than a bad start at primary school. We often overlook diet. I don't want to stretch the metaphor you have created but I wish we can start paying to what we eat a little more
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