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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

Edsurge

His tablet-run version of the game has the same goal: pick letters to figure out a mystery word. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet.

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The current ways m-learning is making online education better

Neo LMS

Through mobile phones and tablets, of course. Smartphones and tablets have become useful extensions to people’s hands. According to the Project Tomorrow Speak Up Survey: “From Chalkboards to Tablets” from 2013, a majority of students believe that having access to a tablet is an essential component of their ultimate school.

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In DC, Teachers Run the Jail. It’s Turning Inmates Into Students.

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He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. She purchased tablets to offer short-term learning opportunities to transient inmates. A pilot program would test the use of tablets in combining online education with classroom teaching in a prison setting. The tablet computers allow inmates to drown out the din.

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What You Need to Know About E-rate

Digital Promise

.” This rarely noticed charge helps fund a variety of programs that enable families, libraries, and schools to stay connected. One of those programs is the Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries, better known as E-rate.

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The power of ed-tech in the developing world

Neo LMS

The deal saw the books delivered to over 600,000 government distributed teacher tablets across the country, amounting to over 40 million individual e-textbooks! The company’s extensive library of test prep materials and study guides — many of them video-based — offer a student-centric way to access the material and content they need.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

edWeb.net

Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators. Allison is a member of the Wake County Public School System’s Digital Learning & Libraries team where she serves as their senior director.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

Edsurge

So when Hiram College announced last month that it would provide every student and professor an iPad starting this fall, it made us wonder what the state of Apple’s sector-creating tablet on campuses is these days. (It One of the first to try it was Lynn University , in Boca Raton, Florida, which launched its own iPad initiative in 2013.

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