Photo sharing app - this would be cool on the classroom sets of iPods or iPads - students could instantly see others' pictures (with a wifi connection)
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From the blog post:
It is not so much about the tool and what it can do, but more about the purpose for using the tool. Obviously, if students want to share pictures of a project they are working on, a digital camera and a blog make a lot more sense than a flipbook. Still, don't count out older technologies just because you are trying to be a "21st Century Educator." Sometimes a dry erase marker and a wipe-off slate will do the job just fine.
From the article: "Teens lag behind all other age groups in e-book adoption. Sixty-six percent of 13- to 17-year olds say they prefer print books to e-books, 26 percent say they have no preference and only 8 percent prefer e-books. One reason for this resistance: Teens like using social technology to discuss and share things with their friends, and e-books at this point are not a social technology."
"Twitter isn't a place I go to say, 'I walked my dog today.' Twitter is the place I go to for professional learning," Taylor says. "I follow educators. I follow administrators and school counselors. We have a chat once a month where we share resources, articles, iPad apps."
useful information on WHY go to the cloud... i found the cost-savings numbers to be surprising, and i think this kind of info is what needs to be shared with others when asking to shift from a program like Word to Google Docs. has real, definable, quantifiable meaning
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If Google+ is a social networking tool our students will eventually have access to through their school Google accounts, this might be a great tool to teach digital responsibility, ethics, and information-sharing
A fifth of American adults have read an e-book in the past year and the number of e-book readers grew after a major increase in ownership of e-book reading devices and tablet computers during the holiday gift-giving season
The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by a non-e-book consumer.
Some 41% of tablet owners and 35% of e-reading device owners said they are reading more since the advent of e-content.
There are four times more people reading e-books on a typical day now than was the case less than two years ago
E-book reading happens across an array of devices, including smartphones.
In a head-to-head competition, people prefer e-books to printed books when they want speedy access and portability, but print wins out when people are reading to children and sharing books with others