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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, […]