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Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?

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This technology can also help educators support families, Kang added, by scanning publicly available community resources and identifying relevant library events, food banks, free clinics and the like. It's a little bit like, before the iPhone was created, asking people if they wanted all their songs in their pockets,” Stokes said.

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8 Best Flashcard Apps for iPad

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Cram users have access to a massive library of flashcards and the ability to create custom decks. Anki Anki is renowned for its spaced repetition system, which is fantastic for long-term retention of information. This system presents flashcards at strategically timed intervals to optimize memorization and recall.

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What’s the future for libraries?

eSchool News

Minecraft and makerspaces are transforming the traditional library in one city. It’s about to get loud,” a Twin Oaks Branch librarian warned patrons on a recent afternoon just before the start of Minecraft Club, where more than a dozen kids gathered to play the popular video game at the South Austin library.

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How Schools Can Respond To The Age Of Information

TeachThought - Learn better.

Libraries for centuries have acted as points of media aggregation that were intellectual and cultural and functioned as lodestones of information. The internet has changed things again, offering virtual libraries and fingertip-access to collective human information lodes. From where you were standing, to somewhere you can experiment.

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iMovie for iPhone 4

SpeechTechie

When Apple announced they were releasing a version for iPhone, I thought that seemed logical and a great idea. You can use the theme-based music or anything from your iTunes library. iMovie for iPhone can be used to produce social stories and scripted role-plays, or to provide video feedback on session behaviors. What about you?

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Tech Solving the Intolerable Motionlessness of Reading

EdNews Daily

Getting their attention with black and white paper words after most children today have been exposed to iPhones and iPads since they were 2-year-olds is today like trying to get a teenager to dial a rotary phone with no instructions ( one of the most hilarious videos on the web today of 17-year-olds trying just that). A New Answer.

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My Self Care Toolkit

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4 Bibliotherapy Overdrive via my public library card in addition to a Kindle, a real one, not the Kindle app that can walk you into social media less-great distraction on your phone, leads me to reading that brings me places and won't break the bank. . #6 They actually make me look forward to a ride here or there for work.