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Interactive Textbooks Online: Transform Your K12 Study Experience

Kitaboo on EdTech

Interactive digital textbooks are increasingly being adopted in K12 educational institutions as they hold the power to transform a students’ study experience. To keep up with the evolving educational industry, switching to digital interactive textbooks is essential for your institution. Table of Contents: I.

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A Pedagogical Shift Needed for Digital Success

A Principal's Reflections

The purposeful use of technology can innovate assessment, transform time frames around learning, increase collaboration, enable learning about information and research thanks to unprecedented access, and provide a level of student ownership like never before. These are all outcomes that any educator would (or should) openly embrace.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. I think the latter."

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Wiley to Acquire Knewton’s Assets, Marking an End to an Expensive Startup Journey

Edsurge

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of May, were not shared.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. He was recognized with the Tech Champion Award at the 2022 Digital Industry Dynamite Awards and featured in the EdTech50. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools? Should it be blocked?

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KITABOO partners with Amazon Polly for creating interactive children’s eBooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Digital technologies are increasingly being used to bring alive the stories and even the learning materials, enabling the young learners to learn by doing rather than passively soak up information from the instructors. It is precisely why publishers are converting their existing library of physical books into interactive eBooks.

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How a University Took on the Textbook Industry

Edsurge

HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost.

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