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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

(Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). The prognosticators at Futuresource, meanwhile, are bullish on 2-in-1 devices, or devices with detachable or convertible keyboards that can be used either as a traditional laptop, or as a tablet. million shipments from 5.7

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Audible for Students: A Comprehensive Guide

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Audible occasionally rolls out special offers where members can purchase additional credits at a discounted rate. It can be downloaded on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. This means whether you have an iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy, or a Windows laptop, you’re covered.

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Four C's of App Selection

EdTechTeam

Cross-platform- plain and simple, if your school is thinking about a single platform, specifically iOS or Android, you’re doing it wrong! Even if your school has bought iPads or Android tablets for every single student, and you have a true 1:1 take home initiative, you still cannot forget other factors concerning your school and community.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Google's Family Link unlocks Android for kids | CNET → "We don't want kids thinking Google has built spyware.," There is reason to wonder, nonetheless.

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Disintermediating IT: The Secret Sauce To Small School EdTech Success

There is no box

How do we get reliable bandwidth at a decent rate? We are now working on an e-rate application to double it again. Of course chromebooks and iPads (or android tablets) are out there. Well, I’ve talked about this many times before, but here it goes again: Bandwidth. Google Apps for Education. Teacher Devices.

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Top 10 eBook Readers to Consider while Switching from Print Books

Kitaboo on EdTech

Being virtual in nature, extent and origin, eBooks are primarily designed to be read on a variety of electronic devices like desktops, laptops, iPads and even mobile phones. Kindle Paperwhite by Amazon is currently the most popular e-book reader available in the market. IP-67 rating, allowing water immersion up to 3.28

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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