Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia. EdSurge: How has Vivi affected teacher mobility? One of the great things with Vivi is that it works with laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, Android tablets.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

A growing number of entertainers, including Chapelle and musicians Jack White and John Mayer, prohibit the use of mobile devices during their performances. Founded in 2014, the San Francisco-based company says that it has leased pouches to more than 1,000 schools across the country, including a handful of colleges and universities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. And what’s more, students can collaborate on the platform.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Using a mobile device or tablet, the student can start the story and look around the scene based on their interest, rather than the cameras focus. Forget the limited book reports to demonstrate knowledge, and embrace 3D expression. _ New apps such as Baobab VR have continued to appear with more interactions and engagement.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

The digital diffusion of education enabled the development of the collaborative economy, which refers to an economic system in which companies and several independent creators and producers aggregate and create value jointly in freely interconnected networks. “Co-creation, Here are the top 10 advantages of eBooks over printed books ).

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 11, 2015

It can be used by people for personal projects and planning as well as by companies and groups for major projects. It is web based and there are mobile apps available for iOS and Android. Both mobile apps are now available globally. Users collaborate in real time and can comment and work together on projects. Take a look!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2017

When I think about education technology, images of engaged students in front of computers and tablets come to mind. As the director of business development at Zinc Learning Labs , a literacy company, my bread and butter is communication with educators. But at the moment, there’s reason to question these expectations—and expect more.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

A lot of big names in the publishing industry have had to restructure business operations due to the decreasing number of print book sales. Switching over to digital publishing will also reduce the loss from unsold books. Today, a lot of companies offer subscription-based services.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. 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

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

UPDATE AS OF 1/15/14: The company Gobstopper has changed its name to Curriculet, but this update hasn''t changed how I use Curriculet with my students. The stories and information in the below post still hold true despite the change in company name. The content creation is already done; all the teacher has to do is assign the books.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Even other physical objects like whiteboards, digital boards, tablets, digital pens, and translation devices are considered to be part of the Edtech ecosystem. . Various museums and landmarks have now also started booking virtual tours. This allows students to access the book from anywhere, anytime. Blockchain Technology .

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The Innovative Educator

OCTOBER 9, 2013

This group is managed and moderated by Bradford Networks, a leading security software company that provides educational institutions with a foundation for enabling secure bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives. These are just some places you can go to get connected to other BYOD educators. Do you have some other places, not listed here?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 30, 2022

One way to address this is to partner with digital publishing companies or third-party service providers who can help in the digital content transformation. A case point is Kitaboo, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to transform their print books, documents, and manuscripts into electronic or digital copies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. The company is no longer as high-profile—or as big—as it once was. What have the past years taught him, and where is the company going? And I would say Amplify is increasingly a curriculum company.

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Kathy Schrock

MARCH 30, 2016

They were one of the first companies that understood how important it was to offer cases that would protect student laptops as one-to-one programs were rolled out in schools. I purchased a few Higher Ground cases over the years, as they expanded their line of products to include tablet cases and sleeves.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2015

However, this past year my school received a robot grant that provided ten robots for us from the company Sphero. Sphero is a robotic ball that can pair with an iPad, tablet, iPhone, or smartphone through Bluetooth, and getting started is relatively easy. The robot promoted accessibility within the art curriculum.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

And this is also the time when many students will opt for courses that will help them in their choice of career in the future, as companies look out for highly skilled candidates with specialized training in a particular field. Just like sharing your written notes, but in a more convenient way as this doesn’t involve handing over your books.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Mobile learning. It is therefore important that eLearning content is mobile supported. Many online learning platforms can be used with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Because mobile learning is a trend, one’s own online content should always be tested for smartphone and tablet use. Click To Tweet.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Learning when there is no school' In 1995 I read a little black paperback book that changed my view on the world. The title of the book was ' Being Digital ' and the author was Nicholas Negroponte. Several key elements of Negroponte's book stood out for me and challenged my thinking.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

A few years ago Peter John and I wrote a book entitled 'The Digital Classroom'. The book was received well, and we received some positive comments and feedback. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 17, 2019

Companies are investing in immersive technologies. It’s hard to imagine not fully realizing the potential for our mobile devices as learning tools. enhancing every-day learning experiences–media-rich annotations of historic places, libraries (shelves, books?), Take them with your phone, android or tablet.

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Reading By Example

JANUARY 11, 2016

The company also suggests using their technology with television remotes, a purse, and even pets. The stylus loses it’s connection to the tablet. What I write on specially designed paper is translated onto the Livescribe+ app on my mobile device. Source: Flickr. The battery dies early.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Beanstack helps educators and librarians encourage reading by making it easy to create and promote reading challenges for their communities.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

A few years ago Peter John and I wrote a book entitled 'The Digital Classroom'. The book was received well, and we received some positive comments and feedback. There were sections on digital literacies and mobile learning, both of which we considered to be important for the success of education and learning in the future.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game. This includes video games, mobile games and the like. Not a reader.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Most of the parents of those children are not even literate in Spanish, so they’re not reading books of any kind.”. The product features interactive books that can “read themselves” to children in English or Spanish, Nemko said. Audio books aren’t ‘cheating’. Almost every family now has at least one smart device,” Nemko said.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

August 17, 2022 – Capstone, an innovative learning company merging children’s content with easy-to-use edtech tools for K-5 classrooms, libraries, and home, announces substantial enhancements to its Capstone Interactive eBooks platform. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. About Capstone. www.CapstonePub.com. www.CapstonePub.com.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The ACLU allows donations in someone else’s name , the NAACP offers memberships as gifts , the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has a great “ Defend Free Speech ” shirt for this year as well as signed comic prints for purchase, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation has several awesome shirts and posters as potential gifts with donation.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Vision includes not replacing books based on bindings wearing out, but purchasing content (EX: Shakespeare) and keeping it. Much smaller than the in-person mobilization to register the same number of people. Are tablets ready? We spend rediculously large sums of money to the same companies every few years for repackaged content.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts. Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn't present.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of my favorites: “Books will soon be obsolete in schools,” Thomas Edison said in 1913. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Any day now. Any day now.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Mombasa is an island city of almost 1 million souls, and is surrounded by water, so I went equipped with malaria tablets and insect repellent, and believe me, they were needed. Thanks to all who looked after me so well in #Melb - it was a great pleasure, and very comforting to be in the company of such good friends, so far away from home.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 20, 2020

Reading a book! eBook readers require the documents or books to be in ePUB format. Writers need to keep up with this change and provide their books or documents in the ePUB format in addition to the standard doc format. . Given these advantages that eBook readers have over traditional printed books, ePUB is here to stay.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 30, 2019

It is ok to savor time, with a long sip of coffee or reading a book in the park. Now that we have screentime reported to us on many phones, track it and work to spend less time looking at your mobile device. Tweak Your Tablet for Learning My favorite way to read blogs, magazines and such is Flipboard. Go off the grid.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 18, 2023

Consumers of digital content use several devices, from smartphones to laptops or tablets to access their content. As companies grow their content delivery services, it will become essential for them to adopt content delivery platforms to bring efficiency, accountability, and quality to the process and outcome. The Takeaway.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. And determined. Outside of the U.S.,

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