How the Amazon Kindle Fire Fits Into Education

The article How the Amazon Kindle Fire Fits Into Education, reads very much like an advertisement for the Kindle Fire. It touches on it’s size, weight, resolution, and even mentions it being protected by Gorilla Glass It mentions its connection to the android, so users can connect to the App store for Android with their Kindle Fire. The article also talks about the Kindle Fire’s cloud storage. Which means that when users download a book it will automatically link to the users Amazon account and save it to their 5 GB of free storage on Amazon’s cloud drive. Finally, at the end of the article it mentions the new feature of textbook rentals, which the article claims is unique to the Kindle Fire.

This article only briefly touches on the uses of the Kindle Fire in school, and when it does it mentions only textbook rentals. Based solely on this article, I don’t know, as a teacher, whether this would be something I would want to try to use in my class. There were definitely some good features mentioned such as it being protected by Gorilla Glass, which in a classroom setting could be very beneficial. Also the storage of the books would be a bonus, although I am not sure if that amount of storage would be enough if the Kindle Fire were being used for a classroom. The textbook rentals were really the biggest positive for a classroom setting, but even still I am not convinced that the Kindle Fire would be the best investment, even over traditional books.

I am hesitant to believe everything in this article at face value because it does read so much like an advertisement. It is not written from the perspective of someone who has actually used the Kindle Fire, but rather from someone who it trying to sell it, and make it sound good.