I Book, You Book, and E-Books?

My self I was never that into reading and writing in school, I was much more interested in coloring and doing my own thing.  Though at home and in my free time I like to write because I had the freedom to write how I wanted about whatever I wanted.


With eBooks becoming such a big influence in our everyday life and also in schools I can see the use of eBooks having a major influence on how students are learning to write.  With eBooks students now have the freedom to write what they feel and have it shared with the world.  Since it is being shared with the world it helps with the writing process for students to know what is good and bad writing.  Letting the world know what they are doing is a big step, but it gives students an end goal for wanting to improve their writing to be able to impress the world with what they can do.  Writing is a skill that students must learn in order to progress and develop in life and school.  The past and traditional way of teaching kids to learn to write is hard when the students have no interest in writing about any topics they are given, which leads to the notation of not wanting to write at all.  With that line of thinking it is hard to teach kids how to be good and effective writers, but now with eBooks we can expand on the horizons of what the kids can write about to spark an interest to get them to focus on how to be effective writers.

It is going to influence how teachers now teach in the classrooms now, since students are finding more interests in what to write about it is going to be a little more challenging to get your kids to have a focused idea of what needs to actually be done.  There is also going to be a more direct and pressure on when and how the kids learn sentence structure and grammar.  In writing an eBook it has the ability to have the autocorrect and spell/grammar check, but you will have to start somewhere before that in order to have the kids form a basic idea of how sentences and grammar should go.  Like Jon Smith talked in his lecture: The World is my Audience, he said said how the kids would write down the material then the teachers would help them put in into the computers.   This is a good form to get the kids to learn the grammar, spelling, and sentence structure before applying it to the actual eBook.

Since it is an eBook it takes into consideration more then just one aspect of learning.  It helps kids understand the ideas of presentation, speech, structure, etc.  One eBook can contain many different sources of ways to look at the topic at hand.  It becomes more than just a typical book, it becomes an interactive piece that helps bring in more than just writing.  An eBook is a great way to help the kids want to learn and be creative creating things they want to get involved in and to get them interested in topics that would normally be boring or students would want to avoid.  The main guy that talks about eBooks in the classroom is Jon Smith, and what he has to say about getting kids involved and creating makes a lot of sense.  We all know that growing up we hated going to school because we knew we would be doing the same boring thing every day, with the idea of eBooks it helps bring what we as teachers are teaching to life! It gets the students to think and be creative with it the subject matter.
 Jon Smith made some interesting points about how a simple idea of creating a book can make such a big impact on almost any student, grade level, and school.  He claimed that almost anyone can get involved and learn by the simple suggestion of creating a book and sharing it with the world.  But the claim that kids learn by creating, sharing, and getting a sense of the world.  This claim was what caught my attention the most, for it makes the most sense.  The idea that kids are bored and will not learn if they are bored means that we need to learn to adjust in the classrooms to help engage the kids.  EBooks are a great way to do this for they introduce new ideas to help kids learn.  It could work in almost any subject, for me going into high school math the concept of creating an eBook would be able to see how the students are actually learning the material and how then how they can apply it, while also bringing in other subjects.

"When children create for the world they make it good. when children create for their teacher they make it good enough." 

                       -Rushton Hurley