Saint Clair Area Adds Ebook Program to Schools (Republican Herald)

Trying to tailor the learning environment to the needs and interests of the students, the Saint Clair Area School District recently added an ebook program to allow its students to access books in the cloud.

“These kids are digital natives so they’re not like us,” said Superintendent Kendy Hinkel. “This is the easier way for them to acquire information. They’re far more tapped into it and they don’t remember a time when we didn’t have digital print.”

The program, an online reading environment from Capstone Publishers, is called myON reader and puts thousands of the books at the students’ fingertips. Read more >