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

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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.
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shared by Phil Taylor on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • it depends on how they are used to support instruction, whether or not they become toys, and what you do with it when it in the hands of the user.  Accessories, apps, and scheduling matter-A LOT.
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iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing | Techinch - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 21 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • The microwave isn’t easier for every cooking task
  • But it simplified simple cooking, and consumers around the world saw it as a necessary piece of equipment
  • Everyone thought the iPad needed traditional computer programs to be successful
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  • Apple introduced the iPad, a computing device many have struggled to classify.
  • customers bought them, took them home
  • Apps that never made sense on computers with keyboards and mice, like GarageBand and finger paint apps and eReaders, suddenly found life on a 9.7″ slate of glass and metal
  • Not doing the same old stuff, but new, innovative things that you would have never thought of on a traditional PC with a screen, keyboard, and mouse on a desk
  • orm factor that makes computing more accessible to more people than ever.
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