Do you need to feel the pages?

From eSchool News online:

A team of researchers at Ball
State University has released the results of a small-scale study
suggesting that wireless handheld devices, or eBooks, could help
encourage reading among students who are reluctant readers.

  August
2, 2007—Can the use of wireless handheld reading devices, or eBooks, in
classrooms boost students’ interest in reading? According to a group of
Ball State University researchers, the answer might be “yes.”
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You’re telling me

"Americans recognize the importance of technology
in reforming the nation’s schools and making them relevant for the 21st
century, a new survey suggests–but they disagree on how schools should
impart key 21st-century skills to their students."

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