Friday, December 04, 2009
E-Reader by Aiptek
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will offer e-readers in 2010 to its primary school students as it plans to further digitalize education and promote reading. The e-readers are essential components of Taiwan’s five-year $1.55 billion dollar program designed to improve information technology in classrooms.
Based on the Ministry of Education’s exhibitions, they will purchase the Aiptek inColor e-reader, which has an 8-inch color screen and 1 GB of flash memory for storage. The e-reader already offers 108 e-books, which include both English and Chinese-language books.
This year, Taiwan installed 82-inch digital chalkboards in math, science, and language classrooms. The “chalkboards” allow teachers to write on them, add supplemental information with images, and make changes to images on the screen. Additionally, the Ministry provides touch screen monitors to groups of five children to make classes more interactive.
Taiwan has also passed a $2.5 billion dollar budget from a stimulus bill that aims to battle the global recession through educational investments.
-Justin Tang
Taiwan Plans to Roll out E-readers in Schools (by Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service)
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