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Book Review: Annotation

Dangerously Irrelevant

The book highlights five key functions of annotation: providing information, sharing commentary, sparking conversation, expressing power, and aiding learning. The book gave me some new lenses through which to think about this practice. Tools for school – Digital document annotation on an iPad, iPod Touch, or laptop.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. There is one bright spot in this story: Online books. Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis. Bookopolis is a large collection of fiction and nonfiction books for ages 7-12. Open Library.

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12 Websites for Digital Books Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. There is one bright spot in this story: Online books. Here are eight sites that offer free books for kids to adults: Bookopolis. Bookopolis is a large collection of fiction and nonfiction books for ages 7-12. Gutenberg Project.

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A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. But Is It?

Edsurge

It’s titled “ The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking ,” and it found that students who took notes on a TED talk by hand did better on conceptual recall questions afterward than those who typed their notes on a laptop. And it fit with the hunches of many “laptop skeptics,” says Michelle D.

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9 of the Best Laptop Backpacks for Students

Fractus Learning

With school comes school supplies, and maybe a new book bag. Students are transporting a variety of tech with them each day, and this can include laptops. Rather than just shoving a laptop into an ordinary book bag, laptop backpacks can help to make carrying a laptop more convenient, and hopefully a little safer.

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What Happened to the ‘$100 Laptop’?

Edsurge

Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. At the time, a typical laptop cost well over $1,000. That never quite came to fruition, but almost 3 million is still a lot of laptops out there.

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Tech Tip #101: The Laptop Internet Button

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Q: My internet stopped working on my laptop. A: First: Make sure the laptop button that allows connection to the internet is on. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Everyone else’s in the house works, but mine won’t connect. What do I do?

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