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10 signs that you may be missing opportunities with your school’s technology integration

Dangerously Irrelevant

Teachers are gravitating toward technologies that allow them to tightly control the student learning experience (e.g., Silent work alone on ‘personalized,’ adaptive learning software modules is a dominant modality for students. Option 3: Actually USE the smartphones. 2 books for 2 different needs.

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Interactive eBooks: The Future of Digital Textbooks Unveiled

Kitaboo on EdTech

Learners find it challenging to focus and retain knowledge with a textbook that has only static content and offers passive learning. With the inclusion of interactive eBooks in the educational sector, the learning pattern is gradually transforming. All you need is a connected device, be it a smartphone, tablet, or laptop.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

Edsurge

Their capabilities are often described as a halfway between basic and smartphones.) Yo Books , a company from South Sudan, aims to deliver and distribute books on low-cost devices across remote regions. Across Africa, feature phones make up 56 percent of the overall mobile phone market, according to technology research firm IDC.

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How AI Will Save Education

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Earlier this fall, Corey Mohn , President and Executive Director of CAPS Network , had recommended to our Deeper Learning Team a book that was just published in 2021 Running with Robots: The American High School's Third Century by Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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Write, Design, and Publish: Your All-in-One Guide to Effortless Digital Book Creation

Kitaboo on EdTech

The rise of digital book creation software has provided authors and publishers with the tools required to not only swiftly craft literary works but also aid their publishing and promotion. Creating Engaging Content Understanding Your Audience Writing Comprehensive Content Learning Clarity and Accessibility Evaluating Learning Outcomes III.

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How to Do Adaptive Learning Right

Edsurge

But optimizing a flawed model of education is not in the best interests of our students, and from a learning outcomes perspective may make things worse than they already are. In the case of adaptive learning, education commentator Audrey Watters gave examples of how things can go badly wrong on her blog. Tune too easy?

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? The non-profit organization has a collection of more than 56,000 books which it''s delivered on Kindles, to some 600 students in Ghana and Kenya. Inquisitive Minds is responsible for Zoodles , a series of products and services to keep kids safe online.