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John Evans

How to Give iBooks as Gifts from iBooks & iTunes in iOS - 2 views

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  • John Evans on 21 Dec 13
     
    "iTunes and App Store users have long been able to gift apps, movies, and music, and thanks to a recent iBooks Store change, we can all give the gift of literature too, and complete the whole transaction right in our hand from iOS. Perhaps best of all, you can schedule the gift arrival to be on a specific date, and the gifted book arrives neatly in their email inbox right on time, which means that even total slacker holiday shoppers like me will be able to get something for everyone in time for Christmas. "
Phil Taylor

Glad You Asked About the Digital Generation | Fluency21 - Committed Sardine Blog - 4 views

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  • absolute centrality of digital culture to their students’ lives
  • thinking skills that today’s workers need?
  • The most powerful technology in the classroom was, is, and always will be a classroom teacher.
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  • They’re often accused of being intellectual slackers and anti-social beings who lack even basic social skills. However, many bodies of research point to the contrary
  • The problem is that what they expect and experience in their world outside of school with their games and websites is completely at odds with what they experience in the classroom where everything is controlled by adults.
  • Every generation since the time of Socrates and Plato, including our parents, has looked at the next generation, including ours, and said, “What’s wrong with those kids?” That’s the thing—there’s nothing wrong with these kids. They’re just neurologically different, and that’s why they see the world and engage with it differently than we do.
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