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Duncan Calls For Textbooks To Become Obsolete

Duncan Calls For Textbooks To Become Obsolete | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
WASHINGTON -- Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Excellent iPad Apps to Create eBooks

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Excellent iPad Apps to Create eBooks | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

.What amazing things technology is bringing into our life. What is even more amazing in technology is its unpredictability. We never know what will come next and in the same time we are alwasy looking for innovations. At first we started with technology, then things advanced to give birth to mobile technology and now we are living in an age of nanotechnology. Isn't it amazing how human life is developing into the unknown ?

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Around the Web: Breaking up with ebooks, Blogging in the classroom and more

Around the Web: Breaking up with ebooks, Blogging in the classroom and more | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
I’m breaking up with eBooks (and you can too) Ebooks Choices and the Soul of Librarianship Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online The Last Future Uncovering the world’s ‘unseen’ science (preprint) HBO Rightly Decides Not ...
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Making ebooks – quick and easy - K12 Open Ed

Making ebooks – quick and easy - K12 Open Ed | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Quick post on making ebooks quick + easy

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TechCrunch - Publishers Sue As Boundless Learning Grabs $8M For An Open Alternative To Textbooks

TechCrunch - Publishers Sue As Boundless Learning Grabs $8M For An Open Alternative To Textbooks | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
It seems it's a big news day for eBooks and eTextbooks. Google is winding down its eBook service for indie publishers, while Apple and top publishers are the subjects of domestic and European probes into eBook price-fixing.
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Ebooks: the format of the academic future

Ebooks: the format of the academic future | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Steven Schwartz explains why more universities should start publishing ebooks and how they benefit students...
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Infographic: Digital Textbooks and the Modern Classroom - MacTrast

Infographic: Digital Textbooks and the Modern Classroom - MacTrast | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
OnlineUniversities.com has released a great new infographic showing how digital textbooks could revolutionize the classroom as we know it - and save money in the process!
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Where’s the Research?! A Plea for Expanding the Evidence on Ebooks and Educational Technology

Where’s the Research?! A Plea for Expanding the Evidence on Ebooks and Educational Technology | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
I am currently co-facilitating a faculty panel on ebooks at my institution's upcoming Humanities Symposium. I will be providing context and research results on the use of ebooks for academic study....
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INFOGRAPHIC : The Textbooks Of Tomorrow

INFOGRAPHIC : The Textbooks Of Tomorrow | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
As someone who has just bought an iPad, I can personally appreciate its potential to become the dominant force in the digital book wars.
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A classroom in your eBook? | eCampus News

A classroom in your eBook? | eCampus News | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Besides notes, highlights, and web links, an eBook company has introduced interactive and social media aspects to its tablet-based tomes, becoming the latest to blend textbooks with classroom-like chats.
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Children's Books Forever

Children's Books Forever | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Free online books that can be used with Smartboards, projectors or PowerPoint.

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10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. Book reports can be a contributing factor to 'readicide'.
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PLAYBACK: Potential of Ebooks, Social Media and YouTube for Learning, Remixing and Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

PLAYBACK: Potential of Ebooks, Social Media and YouTube for Learning, Remixing and Play | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
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TED Books

TED Books | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
| TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to share ideas worth spreading.
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Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Wikibooks, open books for an open world | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Help us generate original educational content for select Saylor courses via Wikimedia’s Wikibooks project!
Planète-Ressources's curator insight, December 18, 2012 4:35 AM

Projet pour la constitution d’un fonds de livres électroniques libres à destination des enseignants et des étudiants

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KooBits – Ebook software, digital publishing and marketing

KooBits – Ebook software, digital publishing and marketing | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
KooBits presents everything you need to create, publish and market ebooks, as well as a digital bookshelf software to shelve and read ebooks.
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EBook Lending Libraries

EBook Lending Libraries | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

This page lists places where you can borrow modern and classic time-limited ebooks for free, or for a yearly fee.

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The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries

The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them.

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eReaders will transform the developing world – in and outside the classroom « Educational Technology Debate

eReaders will transform the developing world – in and outside the classroom « Educational Technology Debate | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

If Worldreader’s experience so far is any guide, e-readers are set to transform the developing world, both in – and outside the classroom. But this change won’t be driven by e-readers by themselves – it will be driven by human curiosity, ever-increasing connectivity, enlightened self-interest, and a gentle push from organizations like ours.

 

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Infographic on The Digital Classroom

Infographic on The Digital Classroom | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
There is a growing buzz in the educational sphere around digital textbooks. Since the launch of iBooks 2 and iBooks Author and the educational technology experts are investigating the potential of these new revolutionary tools
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Educational Technology Guy: ReadPrint

Educational Technology Guy: ReadPrint | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

Free online books for students, teachers, and readers.


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Textbook-free schools share experiences, insights « Educational Technology

Textbook-free schools share experiences, insights « Educational Technology | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
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Are textbooks history?

Are textbooks history? | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

In the evolving worlds of education and technology, printed textbooks remain the norm, although there is plenty of experimentation going on with cutting-edge items such as electronic readers and tablet computers.

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Open Culture

Open Culture | The 21st Century | Scoop.it
Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more.
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What happens when all textbooks are (only) digital? Ask the Koreans! | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education

What happens when all textbooks are (only) digital? Ask the Koreans! | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education | The 21st Century | Scoop.it

A few years ago, a World Bank study highlighted the fact that there simply aren't enough textbooks for most students in Africa, and what is available is too expensive.

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