4 Steps To Transform Your Kindle Into A Learning Device
How to get the most from your e-reader.
Most people are e-reading enemies until they truly read their first e-book. I remained an enemy fifteen books in.
Building on my education expertise, I’d argue you can’t interact with your Kindle as you can with your physical book. You can’t dog-ear your favorite pages, scribble your questions in the margins, or sketch out the concept you just learned.
And while these arguments still hold true, technology-assisted learning makes most of them irrelevant. Now that I discovered how to use my Kindle as a learning device, I wouldn’t trade it for a paper book anymore.
Here are the four steps it takes to enrich your e-reading experience.
1. Highlight Everything You Want To Remember
No worries, I know researchers proved highlighting to be an ineffective learning tool. In fact, I join the canon against highlighting as a learning technique.
And yet, highlighting your e-book’s phrases is the necessary first step to create your learning experience. Here’s why.
First, highlighting will slow down your reading speed. This is a good thing, as researchers from San Jose State University have shown…
