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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

After all, textbooks are a must in classrooms. Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Thus, replacing expensive textbooks with technology in the classroom is the right thing to do in the current scenario. Use Open Source eBooks.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms. He prefers to go to bookshelf,” she said, “instead of sitting on the tablet and trying to figure it out.”. But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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