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Digital textbook company Inkling announces more investors
Inkling, which develops digital textbooks for the iPad, has been around for a couple of years now, but this year its been steadily building up steam (or at least cash) as it prepares to dramatically...
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Amazon Student app lets students buy and resell textbooks, other items
Smartphones can be used for plenty of things other than information retrieval. Case in point: Amazon has released a new iPhone app aimed at college students. A fine-tuned version of its previous iPhone...
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Rapid-fire book exposure: ‘Extreme Speed Booking’
Here’s a clever use of technology to promote reading among kids—taking a cue from speed dating to create “Extreme Speed Booking”. The idea is that kids are given two minutes with each book—they can do...
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How to harness cell phones to help students learn
The Innovative Educator has a fairly long blog post proposing a number of ways that schools could use students’ cell phones to increase engagement with reading and writing in the classroom. The piece...
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UK young adults prefer printed books – really, honestly
A new report from UK market research organization Voxburner, which claims to be “giving you the edge on young consumers,” and cited by The Guardian, claims that “62 percent of 16-24s prefer books as...
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Purdue reveals an alarming future for academia with Amazon?
Purdue University has announced some bright news for its students – provided they are prepared to tie themselves to Amazon. They now have “the opportunity to save up to 30 percent – or $6 million – a...
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Kids, privacy and the K-12 tech debate
Can K-12 students actually get too much tech? Several parents I know are on the “too much” side, and it’s a fitting topic, as the new school year approaches—especially since some of the most famous...
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How a K-12 teacher helps students cope with Internet 2.0: An inside look—and...
We’re starting the new school year this week, and I’ll now run the library and reading program. I’ll also teach technology classes school-wide. A desperate need exists for this, and the education...
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Kids and DIY e-books: A powerful tool to engage students in reading and writing
With my Grade 3/4 class halved due to a flu bug, it seemed like a peaceful week to wrap up our little e-book unit. For our final project, we made a little e-book of our own to share our learning with...
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E-books and the ‘Bring your own device’ question
The digital divide is alive and well, but most workers today at least own cell phones. If not, should an employee be provided with one? And what “Bring Your Won Device” policies to use with workers or...
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Many low-income students use only their phone to get online. What are they...
By Crystle Martin, University of California, Irvine For many of us, access to the Internet through a variety of means is a given. I can access the Internet through two laptops, a tablet, a smartphone...
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