美語情景對話 第993期:E Books 電子書

Sarah: So what do you think about switching over to electronic textbooks in the classroom?

薩拉：你認為在課堂上使用電子書怎麼樣？

Peter: That's a really good question, it's one I've been debating myself for quite some time. I think, I'm mostly for it because I think the textbooks tend to be quite heavy to carry around, students carry a lot, have to carry a lot of them around. And having it in a digital form is much easier for students to access, it's very convenient. They can carry most of their textbooks in one kind of tablet or one on their phones and access it anywhere. And it's easily ... obviously easily transportable but also easily accessible wherever you are really. I think it's also with technology improving, you can change the format of the reading that you're doing in the textbook and the font sizes change and you can highlight and change text if you need to. I've also started using it myself and I think it's become much easier taking notes, I just open up a document next to it and add notes as I read. Yeah, I'm mostly for it. What about you?

彼得：這是個非常好的問題，很長時間以來我一直在考慮這件事。基本上來說，我贊成使用電子書，因為我認為紙製的書本太重了，不便利攜帶，學生們經常要帶很多書。而使用電子書則更方便學生使用，這樣非常便利。他們可以把大部分教材放在平板電腦裡或是手機裡，這樣他們在任何地方都可以使用。顯然，這樣更便於攜帶，同時無論你在哪裡，都可以使用。我認為，隨著科技的發展，你可以改變閱讀課本的形式，你可以改變字型大小，可以做標記，如果有需要還可以改變文字。我已經開始使用電子書了，我認為這使記筆記更加容易，我只要開啟一個檔案，然後在旁邊加筆記就可以了。我支援電子書。你呢？

Sarah: I see the advantages for it as well but I also see many disadvantages. First disadvantage I see is, students if it's on an electronic device they'll be more tempted to do other things other than what they're supposed to be doing with their textbook. As well is I see as a problem for writing in the book as far as notes. Although you can write notes in there, it's hard to reference back to them or hard to reference back certain pages, because I myself have used electronic textbook in the past and found that for regular books as far as reading, it's great but textbooks it's very difficult in the class if some people have regular textbooks and some people have electronic textbooks, trying to figure out what page everyone is on because if you have different text sizes then perhaps it'll be a different page numbers and it just makes it more difficult for trying to all be on the same page.

薩拉：我知道電子書的優點，不過我也看到了電子書的缺點。首先，如果使用電子裝置，那學生就更可能被誘惑去做其他的事情，而不是學習教材。另外，我認為做筆記也是個問題。雖然電子書也可以做標記，但是很難回到之前的標記或者說很難回到特定的頁數，我以前用過電子教材，但是我發現就一般的書來說，用電子書的方式閱讀非常棒，可是就教材來說，在課堂上用很麻煩，如果有學生用紙製教材，有學生用電子書，那很難確定每個人的頁數，因為如果文字大小不一樣，那頁數也可能不一樣，所以很難讓所有學生看相同的頁數。

Peter: Yeah, I can kind of see your point. Although, what I do like about the electronic textbook so that they've got a lot of interactive material that you can directly link to the text that you're using like any animated materials, videos, other online material that you can access immediately whereas if you have a book you don't have that more interactive component. And as a teacher I think it's easier for me to add anything as the lesson goes on or as the course proceeds to just add more things to it, whereas with a textbook you're kind of more bound I guess, you have to stick to the text and the online experience just opens up many more possibilities, I think. And it's all in the same medium so you know that I find really great.

彼得：我可以明白你的觀點。不過，我喜歡電子書是因為上面有很多互動性材料，你可以直接連結到你使用的文字中，比如你可以加入動畫材料、視訊或其他你可以獲得的網路材料，而傳統書籍沒有這種互動性功能。作為老師，我認為這使我在講課時新增補充材料變得更加容易，可是傳統的教材有更多限制，你只能講教材上的內容，可是網路增加了更多可能性。而且這都包含在同一個介質中，所以我認為那非常棒。

Sarah: Yeah, I would agree with you and I think that's the way the future is going, definitely for education is to go, they're calling it paperless, I think. I know many schools in the US. are going paperless where they're doing all electronic things in the classroom. They all have ipads so it's very interesting.

薩拉：我同意你的觀點，我認為這是教育未來的發展方向，他們稱為無紙化。我知道美國有許多學校已經開始無紙化了，他們在課堂上使用電子工具。他們在課堂上用iPad，非常有意思。

Peter: Yeah, it is.

彼得：對，沒錯。

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重點講解：
1. tend to do sth. 往往會；經常就；
例句：I tend to prefer have a holiday at seaside.
我往往更喜歡在海濱度假。
2. be tempted to do sth. 想做…的;希望做的；
例句：He can be tempted to dishonest dealing.
可恥的交易也能對他產生誘惑力。
3. other than （用於否定陳述後）除了…以外；
例句：Other than that there was no stamp of personality.
除此之外，再也沒有任何表明個性的標記了。
4. open up （使）（機會、可能性等）出現；（使）產生；
例句：It was also felt that the collapse of the system opened up new possibilities.
人們也認為這一制度的崩潰帶來了各種新的可能性。