As digital and mobile technologies assume a growing role in classrooms around the country, the stalwart textbook has remained largely analog. But this past January, Apple turned heads when it expanded its iPad bookseller, iBookstore, to include textbooks in partnership with the three largest K-12 publishers, who, together, are responsible for around 90 percent of textbook sales in the market.
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iPaddiction: 8 Burning Questions About iPads in Class (Answered!) - 14 views
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"What percentage of class time do the students use the iPads?"
iPadworkshop - home - 7 views
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Discover how the iPad impacts the classroom, evaluate the anytime, anywhere content development and see how useful it is to merge 60 pounds of textbooks or an entire library into a 1.5 pound device. Learn how to take advantage of all that this incredible device has to offer from downloading and managing apps to an exploration of the latest education apps to increase productivity as well as student learning.
iPad Programme Portal - 0 views
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From this site, you can 1.access information about the programme 2.learn how to set up and use your iPad in the College environment 3. lodge warranty and insurance claims for College provided iPads
How 'Big Three' Publishers Are Approaching iPad Textbooks -- THE Journal - 0 views
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Publishers creating e-textbooks for use on iPads--raising questions about memory storage on iPads
Rise of the iKids: Schools test iPads in classrooms - San Jose Mercury News - 2 views
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lists a range of ways schools are using iPads
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