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More College Students Are Downloading Course Materials for Free—Or Skipping Them Entirely

Edsurge

Use of free course materials among college students is up, with 22 percent downloading at least one such resource during the spring 2019 semester, according to research published Wednesday by the National Association of College Stores. The percent of students who reported downloading free materials has increased each semester since.

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Epic Ways to Celebrate Pi Day

The CoolCatTeacher

Download this episode to listen offline by right-clicking here and choosing “Save As.” Download Transcript. He is an enthusiastic ambassador for the beauty and usefulness of Mathematics and shares this message with his anyone who will listen. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here. ” Subscribe now.

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Physical Bookstores in The Digital Age

Ask a Tech Teacher

When Amazon released the Kindle in 2007 authors began to see the end of times. Another supposed threat to the print book is torrenting and online downloads of materials. It seems every time we turn around another handful of locations are closing. However, in recent years it seems that print books have been selling better and better.

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How to Edit Microsoft Office Files in Google Drive

Shake Up Learning

If you are using Google Drive to store your files, you may find yourself with some Microsoft files that you would like to edit without having to download and open in their native applications. Note: If you edit Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents older than Office 2007, files will be saved to a newer format when editing using Office editing.

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Mind-Body Math: Manipulatives in the Digital Age [Infographic]

MIND Research Institute

Download the toolkit: Sources. Interested in learning more about how to apply research around embodied cognition and digital manipulatives in your classroom? Alibali, M. & DiRusso, A. The function of gesture in learning to count: More than keeping track. Cognitive Development, 14 (1), 37–56. Bertsch, S., Wiscott, R., &

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Chrome Can: Creating eBooks with Chromebooks!

Dr. Shannon Doak

To do this click on File/Download as/PDF Document (.pdf). in September 2007. Google Docs can be downloaded in the EPUB format in the same manner as described above for saving a Google Doc as a PDF. Another way to share their books is to download the book as an EPUB. Chromebooks can create PDF’s in multiple ways.

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Mississippi students increase participation rates, improve scores on AP exams

The Hechinger Report

Nationwide, the number of high school graduates from public schools who took an AP exam during high school has increased by 70 percent since 2007. You can download national and state-specific AP data here. Only 18 male students and one female student took the Computer Science A exam in 2017, for example.