By Donna Boynton, TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Kindle in hand, Clinton High School English teacher Scott Connery talks with students in his senior honors English class. Scott Connery holds all the books he will use to teach his senior honors English class in his hand. Mr. Connery is part of a BYOD — Bring Your Own Device — pilot program being tried out at Clinton High School this year. His students have pre-loaded Kindles — an e-reader — and he teaches from a Kindle Fire, which has a YouTube app for quick references. It is an English class that’s still about literature, but the lingo is no longer about “pages” and “chapters,” but percentage of the book finished, the way in which the Kindle measures the book. “They love it. It fits in with who they are anyway,” Mr. Connery said. “This is fun. I feel like we have taken a step forward. I have all the things I need literally in the palm of my hand.”
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