Monday, January 19 2004
Children at Huffer Memorial Children's Center no longer have to turn the page when reading stories like The Three Little Pigs or Alice in Wonderland.
Now they can push a button instead.
The childcare center has partnered with Ball State University's Center for Information and Communication Sciences (CICS) to offer 15 electronic books (eBooks) to grade school students aged 6-10. The eBooks are part of a Lilly-endowed university research project that is trying to determine how effective their use is in the K-6 learning environment.
"The kids enjoy these books immensely," said Paula Morris, director at Huffer. "They kind of argue over who gets to go to the eBooks area first."
Each of the eBooks holds 17 popular children's books and a dictionary in its memory. Kids can pick what story they want to read from an easy-to-use menu tab that highlights the choices. They can also draw and write on the tablet-sized devices with the use of a touch pen.
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