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MARCH 19, 2018

Using an Android or iOS AR app, students aim it at an image (called a “trigger”) and reveal deeper content layered on top of the physical world be it a student’s discussion of a book they read or the inspiration behind their artwork. If you ask any group of people about AR, most will conflate it with Virtual Reality (VR).

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APRIL 9, 2018

Read out Loud is Adobe’s text-to-speech tool built into all of their PDF programs (Reader, Acrobat, and Pro). Simply open the PDF in Adobe and go to View>Read Out Loud. Ginger Page is a Chrome add-on (also available in iOS and Android) that checks for contextual grammar, spelling, synonyms, and definitions of words.

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MAY 14, 2015

There are other PDF anotators– Adobe Reader , Goodreader , and SlingNotes –but iAnnotate does the most, easily, with a rich collection of features that accomplish pretty much anything I need. Availability: 5/5 (iOS, Android). Availability: 5/5 (iOS, Android, Web). Design: 4/5. Functionality: 5/5. Overall: 4/5. Design: 5/5.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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