Kno Announces Single Screen Tablet Textbook

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Kno announced today that the company plans to make a single screen version of its tablet textbook. The company received a $46 … Read More >>

Who’s That Texting Your Kids in Class 66% of the Time? Parents.

With more than 42% of teens admitting to bringing a cell phone or iPod Touch to class, isn’t it time schools start cracking down? And if technology is to become more a part of education, how will teachers ever track students who are already able to pull off using these devices when they’re not supposed to? As more and more gadgets enter the classroom, won’t it just make it easier to find distractions?

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The point to me really is that if you are loosing your audience to mobile devices, you better figure out a way to engage them on their platform of choice.

For example, wouldn’t it be great if teachers could issue a pop quiz to all the phones surrepticiously under their student’s desks?

Or, I liked the example of Houghton Mifflin, the world’s largest provider of educational materials for K-12, who today launched its first full-curriculum algebra app for the iPad.

ebrary’s Academic Complete E-Book Database Tops 50,000 Titles

ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that its flagship subscription e-book database, Academic Complete™, now exceeds 50,000 titles from the world’s leading publishers.

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A case in point to my last post, educational digital libraries are getting ready for the way in which tablet devices will be utilized in schools and universities, keeping in mind the recent announcement by Notre Dame, where students will be issued iPad tablets for the next semester.