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Digital versus physical textbooks

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For example, when students are reading a life science chapter, they may be able to click on a virtual simulation or interact with maps and graphs. . With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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Frankly, where a lot of support from the teaching profession for the common core tipped over into antagonism, and concern, was because of the way the assessments were introduced. “I can’t speak for other companies, but I have a lot of confidence in the reliability of our online assessments.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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