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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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Swarming the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

A flipped classroom is a teaching pedagogy which reverses old classroom teaching and homework through a form of blended learning using modern technology and practical application. [2] Biomimicry (also known as biomimetics) was coined by Otto Schmidt in the 1950s and describes the transfer of ideas and analogues from biology to technology. [3]

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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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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.

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

was often the best choice given the resources and technologies of that time in history. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0 I classify these technologies as worksheets on steroids.). happens when the technologies of Web 2.0 Education 1.0: Learners as Receptacles of Knowledge.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts.

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