{"id":30,"date":"2013-04-10T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bibliowonk.com\/wp\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-05-23T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T21:32:08","slug":"ebooks-and-doing-the-reading-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"eBooks and doing the reading for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11716431@N00\/4829772626\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PROmedia eBook Reader\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4099\/4829772626_cca2989ac3_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PROmedia eBook Reader (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11716431@N00\/4829772626\">PiAir (Old Skool)<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flaglerlive.com\/52818\/coursesmart-spying\/\">Pierre Tristam<\/a> at FlaglerLive (Flagler County, FL) writes about new EdTech software from CourseSmart that allows teachers to see how much of the reading a student has done. Setting aside pedagogy and the old tradition of fooling the prof, Tristam argues about the nature of reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reading is one of the few truly private activities left us, depending  entirely on the isolation created between book and reader, and the way  the reader chooses to engage with that book:\u00a0 reading a page over five  times, skipping five pages, underlining five lines, cursing at five  others. It\u2019s all between the reader and the book, an act that shares  some of the intimacies of sex (and passion) down to its exhilarations  and disappointments (a bad writer having a lot in common with a lousy  lover). Reading a textbook may not rate in the same category. But it\u2019s  no less intimate. The act of reading a textbook still belongs  exclusively to the reader. <i>How<\/i> you read a textbook is irrelevant. If you\u2019re performing well in class, that\u2019s all that should matter. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazon has been spying on its readers for some time now<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_f.png?x-id=44cc428f-befe-4040-bbd8-6d84a434cd22\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROmedia eBook Reader (Photo credit: PiAir (Old Skool)) Pierre Tristam at FlaglerLive (Flagler County, FL) writes about new EdTech software from CourseSmart that allows teachers to see how much of the reading a student has done. Setting aside pedagogy and the old tradition of fooling the prof, Tristam argues about the nature of reading: Reading&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/?p=30\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">eBooks and doing the reading for students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,68,179],"tags":[52,291,357,358,292],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-books","category-ed-tech","category-privacy","tag-coursesmart","tag-e-books-2","tag-ebook","tag-ed-tech","tag-privacy-textbooks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bibliowonk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}