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

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  • 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.
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  • the new app "a shot across the bow" of Blackboard Inc.
Phil Taylor

Free Technology for Teachers: New Google in Education Ebook and Website - 1 views

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free technology google education ebook

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  • Phil Taylor on 28 Jan 12
     
    Yesterday, the Google Apps for Education team published a new ebook (PDF) titled A New and Open World for Learning. A New and Open World for Learning is all about using Google's products and services in education. The ebook is clearly a marketing vehicle for Google Apps for Education, but you will find some good examples of and ideas for using Google apps in your school.
Phil Taylor

Will iBooks Author Create A Wave of Self-Published Teachers? | Wandering Academic - 0 views

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  • But it struck me – why not create course materials with this? As a teacher, why shouldn’t I just craft my course documents and all the rest, package it up, and distribute it to my students? Well, there are several reasons iBooks Author isn’t ready for this.
Phil Taylor

2013 Schedule | K12 Online Conference - 0 views

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    "Direct links to presentations will be added as the presentations are published each day at 8:00 AM EDT"
Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Bang a Gong, Walter Ong: After Orality and Literacy - 0 views

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begin worlds literacy writing change

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  • But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
  • irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
  • Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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  • The move from a print-centric to a network-centric world? Is this globally significant? Does this revolution in human communication have a cultural dynamic?
  • In this universe, everything revolves around the publisher who controls access to the means of production.
  • Web 2.0, which allows all readers to become writers, is the end of publishing as we have known it since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press
  • Writers still have their dog-earred personal copies of books ready to hand, but now they also have all been issued keys to the globe's virtual Alexandria Library. 
  • the advent of Web 2.0 is the sign of that the apocalypse is at hand and that what lies ahead is a shattering of all the organizing structures of contemporary reality
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