Skip to main content

Home/ SJR Teacher/Learners/ Group items tagged E-Book

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Phil Taylor

5 Reasons E-Books Are Awesome - Even for the Most Reluctant | MindShift - 0 views

mindshift.kqed.org/...me-even-for-the-most-reluctant

ebooks

shared by Phil Taylor on 31 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Still, I have to admit that e-books are better than paper books in some situations. Here are five reasons I’ve switched to e-books, some of the time:
Phil Taylor

On the Eve of the iPad 3, Apple to Rethink Textbooks and Education - 2 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...textbooks_education_ipad_3.php

textbooks ipad education

shared by Phil Taylor on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Just as Apple has entered the market for digital music and, more recently, consumer-focused e-books, it appears set to put a digital, interactive spin on the textbook.
  • Phil Taylor on 19 Jan 12
     
    "Just as Apple has entered the market for digital music and, more recently, consumer-focused e-books, it appears set to put a digital, interactive spin on the textbook. "
Phil Taylor

Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views

committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm

ipads mobile smartphones brain

shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
  • Phil Taylor on 13 Aug 10
     
    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
Phil Taylor

The New Face of Reading? Some E-Books Now Outselling Hardbacks| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

committedsardine.com/blogpost.cfm

new reading books

shared by Phil Taylor on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
  • "Paperbacks are surely still selling at sky-high rates, but the appeal of having a 'stack' of books crammed into one, slim device is certainly winning over customers."
Phil Taylor

Apple Pushes To Put Interactive Textbooks On iPads : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...shes-to-put-textbooks-on-ipads

apple interactive textbooks ipads

shared by Phil Taylor on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware suitable to display them.
  • Apple also released iBooks Author, a new tool meant to lure publishers into creating new content specifically for the iPad education user.
  • even if an iPad were to last for five years in the hands of students, the e-books plus the iPad would cost more than the hardback textbooks.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • the new app "a shot across the bow" of Blackboard Inc.
1 - 20 of 30 Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page