Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents’ education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 The article itself: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B82Y4-4YC2XKM-1/2/7c2bbf36de3f004c7cd8606ee7d851cc Anyone have a link to the paper itself or a draft thereof? I love reading a 2007 paper for $31.50 as much as the next person, but... cjl pgpWZ3Py6rpcI.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement
Chris, I'm as big a believer in the value of e-books as anyone you're likely to meet, but I don't think we can assume that laptops that can download potentially a million e-books would have the same effect as a home library of conventional books. My parents had a fair number of books in the house, plus they bought us a set of Doctor Seuss and other kid's books, plus I had a Willy Ley book on going to the moon, Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets, and some others. There is something about having a real book that you may not get with an e-book. I agree we need to get more e-books for children, but we won't know the real effect of that from this study. James Simmons Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:26:37 -0400 From: Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: aanlktindsg6eir7w15v7q8wmjl0n1zadpgjxdmm65...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents? education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:26:37PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: ... Books in the home as important as parents’ education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 The article itself: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B82Y4-4YC2XKM-1/2/7c2bbf36de3f004c7cd8606ee7d851cc Anyone have a link to the paper itself or a draft thereof? I love reading a 2007 paper for $31.50 as much as the next person, but... I've requested permission to share the article on our wiki: https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlethttps://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet Title: Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations Author: M.D.R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Joanna Sikora, Donald J. Treiman Publication: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Publisher: Elsevier Date: June 2010 Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Logged in as: Frederick Grose Sugar Labs https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet Permission Request Submitted *Your request is now under review. You will be notified of the decision via email. Please print this request for your records.* Get the printable order detailshttps://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet . Order number 500567352 Order date May 26, 2010 11:44 AM Licensed content publisher Elsevier Licensed content publication Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Licensed content title Family scholarly culture and educational success: Books and schooling in 27 nations Licensed content author M.D.R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Joanna Sikora, Donald J. Treiman Licensed content date June 2010 Volume number 28 Issue number 2 Pages 27 Type of Use Website Requestor type Academic / Educational Portion Full article Format Electronic You are the author of this Elsevier article No Are you translating? No Order Reference Number Home page URL for posting content http://wiki.sugarlabs.org Expected publication date May 2010 Duration of posting 3 years Customer Tax ID EIN 41-2203632 Elsevier VAT number GB 494 6272 12 Billing type Invoice Company Sugar Labs Billing address c/o Software Freedom Conservancy 1995 BROADWAY FL 17 NEW YORK, NY 10023-5882 United States Customer reference info Permissions price Not Available Value added tax 0.0% Not Available Total Not Available https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet Copyright © 2010 Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.http://www.copyright.com/ All Rights Reserved. Privacy statementhttps://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet . Comments? We would like to hear from you. E-mail us at customerc...@copyright.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Books and educational achievement
This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents’ education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement
This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents� education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 Thank Chris Even more interesting when read with http://www.pisaresconf09.org/user_uploads/files/context/room2/Kluttig_Peirano_Vergara.pdf There is a low, significant and positive effect of the use of computers at home regarding school achievement. Furthermore, the frequent use of the computer at home impacts positively learning in science. There are indications that enriching the home environment is as important or more important than the school environment. This is a powerful argument in favour of the OLPC take home policy. It is still unclear whether the effect comes from the quantity of resources, the quality of resources or parents' valuing of knowledge. Nevertheless a strong argument for the provision of ebooks and other take home resources. Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Books and educational achievement
On 26 May 2010 09:26, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents’ education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Does IAEP have an effort to create repositories of text books? If so, is it tied together with http://www.opentextbook.org/? Tim McNamara http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tim/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
