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Google For The Classroom Learns A Valuable Lesson

Tim Twelves — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:22:45 +0000

Education is a growing market in the world of the internet. Globally, it’s worth $4.4 trillion. The U.S. makes up a quarter of that, with the K — 12 market being worth $7.5 Billion alone. A lot of people in Start-Up Land want a slice of that pie. With any luck, the Texas State Board […]

Google To Sell Digital Textbooks Dirt Cheap

Matt Algren — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:00:05 +0000

Google made several big announcements yesterday, and while most people (including yours truly) are excited about the second generation Nexus 7 and Chromecast, Google announced another service that has the potential to be a major game changer for education. Google Textbooks will launch in early August 2013, just in time for the start of classes. […]

Studies Claim Students Prefer Traditional Paper Textbooks Over E-texts

Rick Diehl — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:00:05 +0000

According to the sales statistics of Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon, everybody loves e-books. The economically-priced readers; the ability to store and transport an entire library effortlessly and less expensively; the added benefits of highlighting, annotation, simplified note-taking, searchable text, and inserted ancillary materials. It’s no wonder e-books are popular. With the rapidly […]

Amazon Going Up Against Apple In The Education Market

Paul Hurwitz — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:00:36 +0000

Amazon has announced it plans to make a push into the education market by introducing Kindle Whispercast, a service for centrally managing all the Kindles used in a system. The online retailer faces off against Apple, which has been firmly entrenched in the education market for quite some time and shows no signs of losing steam. […]

An iPad In (Almost) Every Classroom

Meghan Wolff — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:15:03 +0000

“What can an iPad do for my classroom and students?” In the past three months, approximately 9,300 Teach for America corps members have claimed a free, refurbished, first-generation iPad for use in their classroom in an attempt to answer that question. The donations come courtesy of a recent partnership between Apple and Teach for America, […]

Flat Stanley Gets Digitized With New iPhone App

Andrew Pish — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:30:12 +0000

With Flatter World, Inc.’s release of their new Flat Stanley iPhone app, the story of Flat Stanley has finally made its way into the 21st century. Yes, that’s right. Our beloved Stanley Lambchop has been digitized into the worldwide mainframe. Let’s first take a whirl back in time. The original Flat Stanley was a children’s […]