struggling to strike a balance between print and digital curricula for students, textbook publishers are taking to the cloud to house new digital resources and curricula.
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Education Week: Publishers Turn to Cloud Computing to Offer Digital Content - 47 views
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cloud-based textbook is stored on the Internet by servers not operated by school districts themselves
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start discussions with each other about the content, complete interactive assessments and activities, and search Google or Wikipedia for further information.
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Donald Clark Plan B - 39 views
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for 20% of the world to benefit from the internet, but 100% to benefit from the new technologies, including the Web, that are available.
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“I want all the technology companies, the Microsofts, the Apples, the Facebooks, the Googles to be involved in this project
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who can’t see past the ‘we need more teachers argument’. They’re right but teachers are not scalable.
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It took a politician to show the word’s educators how to communicate, teach, frame a problem, provide facts and detail, THEN a solution.
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All children in school by 2015, with massive injection of funds by the private sector, public sector, religious institutions and not-for-profits, all given wings by technology, mobiles and the web.
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'Let's march. Let's march for education and let's march for it together.”