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Subscriber Special: Special Add-on with School License

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A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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The other feels like the catalog room of the Library of Congress. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? When I introduce students to digital note-taking, we start with a discussion of handwritten vs digital notes. The next time your school decides to investigate paperless classrooms, offer to take charge.

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K–12 Schools Find Educational Benefits in Cloud-Based Gaming

EdTech Magazine

Cloud technology allows video game streaming on nearly any device , from smartphones to traditional game consoles. The same goes for Chromebooks. You have access to a limited library of games.”. Among the tech behemoths, Amazon and Google are forging inroads in cloud-based gaming.

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Why Talking About 'Screen Time' is the Wrong Conversation

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That can leave parents and educators feeling a sense of anxiety about technology and kids, even as more schools use iPads and Chromebooks and other tech in classrooms. And then you say it's our smartphones, and the only way we can ever even communicate with our peers to deal with all this stress is through our smartphones.

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Subscriber Special: April

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A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants.

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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

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Quickly after iPads, schools fell in love with Chromebooks and their amazing ability to allow students to collaborate and share, not to mention their ease of maintenance. This is driven in large part by the affordability and portability of digital devices like Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops.

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Storyboard That–Digital Storyteller, Graphic Oranizer, and more

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Students can map out ideas, write stories, or relay events in a comic format using Storyboard That’s huge library of backgrounds, characters, text boxes, shapes, and images. When you sign up as a teacher, you get a dashboard to manage students and support for Google sign-in.