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Rhondda Powling

Download free textbooks online - 5 views

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    Bookboon is a free service offering free full-length textbooks, travel guides, and business books in digital form. The textbook section of Bookboon offers more than 500 digital textbooks. On Bookboon there are etextbooks available for twenty-five subjects, but the bulk of the etextbooks are focused on Economics, Engineering, and IT.
Roland Gesthuizen

Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms - 4 views

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    "Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age. Under the "future school" project, 10 elementary schools will give all their under-12 pupils tablet PCs and fit their classrooms with interactive electronic blackboards starting as early as next month."
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    Interesting development in Japan with a pilot Tablet computer project.
Simon Youd

8 ways to jump into ebooks - 0 views

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    These strategies will help you design an eBook implementation districts increasingly move to digital content, many school leaders are chucking printed textbooks in favor of the more interactive content that eBooks and digital texts can offer.
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    These strategies will help you design an eBook implementation districts increasingly move to digital content, many school leaders are chucking printed textbooks in favor of the more interactive content that eBooks and digital texts can offer.
Ian Guest

How to Create Your Own Textbook - With or Without Apple - 3 views

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    "Here's how to create a digital textbook and strategies for involving the students in its development in three steps." Some other useful resources also mentioned by commenters
Shelly Terrell

Student Digital "Textbooks" - LiveBinder - 3 views

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    3rd graders create their own Textbook on LiveBinders
Tony Richards

iPads And Digital Textbooks Do Not Belong In Classrooms Yet | TechCrunch - 10 views

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    Another interesting article
John Pearce

The Ultimate Guide To Apple's New Education Initiative | Edudemic - 14 views

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    "Apple has just unveiled their latest attempt to rethink an entire market. It's not a new tablet, phone, or even a device at all. Today at the Guggenheim, Apple announced how it will essentially get more school districts to buy iPads. But it's not just about the money, there's some amazing software that's rethinking the tried-and-true textbook publishing model. Below are excerpts from the world's best news sources who are live-blogging and in attendance at the event. From them you'll be able to understand exactly what the new software is, what it does, and how it will affect you and your classroom."
John Pearce

Be web savvy to keep up with Generation Z - news - TES - 1 views

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    "The internet is awash with exciting and innovative tools, and your students have grown up immersed in this world - get in on the act. The digital revolution has given us instant communication and easy global connectedness, with mobile technology in particular growing at warp speed: in 2013, there are almost as many mobile phone contracts as there are people in the world. This digital transformation has produced some extraordinary online tools for flexible education, which enhance students' learning and promise innovative pedagogy for teachers. However, they can also be daunting and challenging for educators. It is clear that teachers cannot ignore these tools, which go far beyond just Facebook and Twitter. Educators are now dealing with Generation Z - students born after 1995 who have hardly known a world without social media and have always lived a life measured in bits and bytes. Most have access to iPads and smartphones as well as textbooks and, therefore, the massive resource of the internet."
Andrew Williamson

Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution - 0 views

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    "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." -- Audre Lorde Well here we go, after months of speculation -- beginning with the publication of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve jobs -- we now know about Apple's plans to "transform the textbook industry."
John Pearce

Educational technology: From pencil pads to iPads - 3 views

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    "As textbooks are being replaced by digital readers and traditional education moves online, it's important to understand the evolution of educational technology so that we might better understand where our #edtech tools came from-and where they are going. Find out more in the below infographic."
John Pearce

Gooru - 2 views

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    Teachers and students can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community. Gooru is free (of cost and ads) and developed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to honor the human right to education.
John Pearce

Gooru - 5 views

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    Teachers and students can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community. Gooru is free (of cost and ads) and developed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to honor the human right to education. Search for the best multimedia resources on the web. Customize your favorite resources, collections and quizzes. Study from collections of resources created by teachers. Interact with the Gooru community of teachers and students. Practice with enhanced quizzes that provide instant feedback. Share your knowledge about topics you are passionate about.
Rhondda Powling

10 ways for teachers, students to share links in class | Ditch That Textbook - 2 views

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    "In a class with technology, links are like digital currency. If you have the right ones to the right places, you can quickly open up doors to great learning opportunities. The key is having them at the right time and being able to deliver them to students."
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