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Apps in Education: My E-Textbook Manifesto: - 0 views

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iPad textbooks eTextbooks apps

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?
  • need to be visually stunning
  • e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages
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  • should be a fascinating read
  • e-Textbooks that are constantly update
  • able to change the variables so that the effects are changed accordingly
  • non-linear interactive media that allows the students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
  • visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect
  • Can we monitor a students progress?
  • E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results. E-Textbooks are only part of the solution. What we need is a situation where student buy-in to their own education. This is where you really see student engagement. 
  • What I really think is this! I think this is the most exciting time in history to be involved in education
Phil Taylor

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

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

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

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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

How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5) | Edutopia - 0 views

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ipad ebooks Textbooks etextbooks digital_textbooks 1to1

shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks: Organizing (Step 1 of 5)
  • This fall, Burlington High School will transition to a 1:1 school exclusively with the iPad 2. One of the goals of this initiative is to slowly transition curriculum and textbooks to ePub format. ePub file format allows anyone to create a file that is readable on an iOS device or Kindle like a book
Phil Taylor

Lifetime access to up-to-date info—is this the future of the textbook? - 0 views

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lifetime info textbook future

shared by Phil Taylor on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Lifetime access to up-to-date info—is this the future of the textbook?
Phil Taylor

EDUCATION: Today's mobile devices are tomorrow's textbooks | Luke Test Subsection - The... - 1 views

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mobile education textbooks Technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Today, more teachers see the devices not as distractions but as tools to help students learn. And experts say the future of education may revolve around these hand-held instruments.
Phil Taylor

Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Shou... - 0 views

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software adaptive learning textbook publishing blended blended learning

shared by Phil Taylor on 28 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • “Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
  • e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.
  • “I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”
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  • “Unlike some younger tech startups, we don’t think the goal is to replace the teacher,” says Laster, the company’s chief digital officer. “We think education is inherently social, and that students need to learn from well-trained and well-versed teachers. But we also know that that time together, shoulder-to-shoulder, is more and more costly, and more and more precious.”
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