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E-PrinceThe University’s e-reader pilot program, which experimented with the use of the Kindle DX in three courses last semester, reduced the amount of paper students printed for their respective classes by nearly 50 percent, the University plans to announce ...
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The Kindle and the iPad, and any other e-reader is going to need a stylus in order to re-create the actual underlining if the owner chooses. I'm sure the technology will improve. I look forward to getting the iPad or Kindle.
...many of those responses practically made me ill...although perhaps that is because the project was ill conceived to begin with...a Kindle is NOT like a regular book...you can't underline, highlighting is not as simple, etc, etc...it's pretty reasonable to expect that students used to study methods dependent on such highlighting are going to going to be somewhat disappointed...so how about a little CREATIVE THINKING?!...PERHAPS there are alternative study methods as good as or even BETTER than the traditional highlighting...PERHAPS being able to carry and read 20 books offers a superior method of acquiring information than simply reading, highlighting and memorizing a single book...PERHAPS the location number system could be used to ADVANTAGE over traditional pages...or maybe someone could simply download the page number tool program and use it to convert the location numbers to pages...PERHAPS the professors could make their lecture notes available via the Kindle...maybe they could even write their OWN textbooks to suit themselves and put them on the device; or maybe select their favorite chapters and quotes from other textbooks...ETC, ETC, ETC...come'on!...use your damn ivy league heads for something more than a hat rack!...
...even middle schoolers were more creative:
http://www.edukindle.com/2009/12/what-middle-sc...
Good article on the drawbacks of sometimes overly-hyped technological change in the classroom. A couple quick points: there was a 45 and 47% DIFFERENCE in paper printed, or paper use was only 55 and 53% compared to non-Kindle classes. Both stats are so close to 50 that it doesn't matter, but had there been a 10-fold reduction the article would've stated only a 10% difference.
For those interested in following Kindle-like devices in teaching, check out inkling.com, a startup (with Princeton alum Josh Forman GS) that attempts to make textbooks and readings more interactive.
Would be curious to know if the iPad could be more suited to the job....
Wow! By his or her remarks, rrtmzd clearly does not know much about studying in a scholarly way. Scholars often annontate and highlight parts of books not because they want to memorise those lines. More advaced ways to study involves interacting with the text/author and annotations and highlights are ways to mark our thoughts, debates, questions, extrapolations that occurred in important passages of the text. I'm elementary school you might have more memorisation invovled but not at the college level and higher (with some ecxeption of say the medical field and law).