World History

Focusing While Reading e-books

Because I have been pushing e-books for four years now, I get lots of good and some negative comments (the positives have greatly increased with this article from the WashPost on my classroom). One negative comments is that it is harder to focus using online books. Of course I point out that the kids' cell phones are never far away and that they already do so much of their work online anyway. But the temptation is still there for sure. Well I just read this post on FreeTech4Teachers for the site StayFocused which allows students to set a time limit for how much a person can be on a site before they will get kicked off and not allowed back until tomorrow. If the kids are sure that it is a serious problem, then they will use it or perhaps their parents will have them do so or I could just be dreaming! Above is a video explaining it.

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- Fakebook & Greek Gods
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- Audio And Written Notes In An E-book
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- Reading Critically
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