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Tablets vs. Textbooks for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Tablets vs. Textbooks for Students In this comparison between tablets and textbooks I cover the strengths and challenges of both, examining how interactive and up-to-date digital content from tablets stands against the tactile, reliable nature of traditional textbooks. Accessibility: Tablets can be a great equalizer in education.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, students who tended to read books more often on digital devices scored only 15 points higher than students who rarely read – a difference of less than a year’s worth of learning. The report, “ Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books? ” That’s equal to almost 2.5 years of learning.

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

Edsurge

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. And how is edX doing by comparison? For one thing, edX made its platform open source, meaning anyone can have access to the computer code. In terms of our strategy, we’ll simply double down on increasing access,” says Agarwal. EdX is like a distant No.

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Swarming the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

Dr. Rosenberg’s comparison is fascinating. What’s even more amazing is how we can use this comparison for a classroom environment (see Table 2). Rosenberg – Schwandt “Brain of Brains” classroom comparison. Norton & Company, 2012). [2] 15] Wikipedia, “Stigmergy,” [link] (accessed on February 22, 2018). [16]

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The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health

MindShift

. “At first, when I saw these trends in loneliness and unhappiness and depression starting to spike around 2011 or 2012, I really had no idea what could possibly be causing that. Then, she says, she took note of Pew research that showed 2012 was the first year that most cell phone owners had switched to smartphones. Przybylski.

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#AskExcelinEd: How Can States Harness Reverse Transfer to Support Postsecondary Persistence and Completion?

ExcelinEd

The scope of this leaky pipeline is well-illustrated by NSC’s Tracking Transfer report, which highlights student transfer and outcomes data for the 2012 cohort of first-year community college students. Creating Reverse Transfer Policies for All Types of Postsecondary Institutions. Reverse transfer policies are increasingly common in states.

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Why America should care about its students’ lackluster performance on the global PISA tests

The Hechinger Report

performance was flat in reading and science since the last administration, in 2012, and went down in math. These factors, the critics say, make comparisons impossible. On PISA, U.S. 15-year-olds performed at about the middle of the pack in reading and science, and well below average in mathematics. Why do these results matter?