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The Education of an Android Teacher

Edsurge

When you meet an android, it’s important to follow etiquette. I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. As I ask Maria Bot questions, Barry taps a button on his smartphone to cue her to listen. This makes it difficult to discern whether the android is a sci-fi character come to life or mere parlor trick.

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Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones.

TeachThought - Learn better.

With Smartphones. Of course, with this kind of access comes disruption. Modern smartphones have the chance to change all of this. Of course, learners are human, so they rebel. Through smartphone implantation, power, pace, and patterns are decentralized, from institutions and educators to individual learners.

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Hour of Code: How Students Can Build Their Own Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

Wouldn’t you love to experiment with 5G on your smartphone or play with Samsung’s foldable phone? With the App Inventor program from MIT, students use block-based tools to build apps on a smartphone. The course is designed for a year long class that meets 5 days per week, though schools implement it in a variety of ways.

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Master the Art of eBooks with ePUB Reader SDK

Kitaboo on EdTech

It assists in creating and distributing digital content that works on a variety of platforms, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones. It powers dedicated e-readers, including Nook, Bookeen, and many more custom e-reading apps on iOS and Android. But an ePUB Reader SDK is a mastery course over the ePUB “know-how.”

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The reason I am replacing my iPhone with an Android smartphone

Reading By Example

Google, of course. The Apple versions of their apps work fairly well on iOS, but the experience is much better within the Android operating system. The native environment provided by an Android phone is certainly a plus in these situations. photo credit: iPhone 6 vs iPhone 6 Plus vs iPhone 5S via photopin (license).

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Why I Purchased an Android Tablet and Not an iPad

The 21st Century Principal

One of the biggest reasons for purchasing an Android tablet as opposed to an iPad was my Amazon cloud products. Of the course, the pure OSers would point out I could store my music in the iCloud, but then I could not access my music on my Kindle Fire, which I sometimes do while reading. I was attracted to the slightly smaller 7.7

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When Learning Goes Nomadic

Edsurge

Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. The iPhone, Android platform, and Kindle then took America quickly into the mobile universe. Of course, these mobile tools have downsides, starting with the temptation of distraction.

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