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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. As a result of this, publishers lose out on their income. A smart move indeed.

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How to Boost Classroom Engagement With the Tech Tool That 'Always Works'

Edsurge

One of the great things with Vivi is that it works with laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, Android tablets. Briana’s Favorite Teaching Resources Books Learning First, Technology Second: The Educator’s Guide to Designing Authentic Lessons Shift This!: You were once a junior high teacher.

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Digital natives still clamor for print materials

eSchool News

But the book has petrified into rock, a veritable crystallized fossil, something long out of use and valuable only to future archaeologists studying early, primitive 21st-century homo sapien reading implements. Not a book, as in the actual physical object, to be found among the studying horde.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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With Adaptive Tech, Students Are Saving Money and Learning More

Edsurge

They were previously spending over $60 for their lab books. We also replaced the $150 textbook we were using with open education resources (OER). Replacing these two books helped students save in total close to $200. In addition, our libraries operate a laptop loan program that allows students to “check out” computers.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Big Tech’s Bets.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

Chromebook Idea Spark #1: Personalized Story Telling with Book Creator. Young writers can use this Book Creators to craft their work and envision it published. Young writers can use this Book Creators to craft their work and envision it published. Created by Austin Houp. Students need a platform to show who they are as authors.