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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

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After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Many of my students find themselves composing essays across a variety of devices, phones, personal laptops or campus desktops.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. These are basically free. Provide Access to K-12 Libraries.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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That’s Rohit Agarwal who headed the K–12 education division after his math company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) Microsoft Windows devices – again, that’s laptops and tablets – remained at about 22%. But there are trade-offs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. The 2013 “Superintendent of the Year” Mark Edwards will join Discovery Education. .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand. . Updates from ISTE.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Randall filed the suit in 2013, eight months after the university fired basketball coach Mike Rice’s for mistreating his players.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Edsurge did finally find ed-tech it could criticize this week , so that’s something.