Category Archives: Digital News
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Challenges Seen in Moving to Multimedia Textbooks
Posted on August 19, 2012 by admin in Digital Classroom, Digital News, Digital Textbooks, OER, TechnologyA new addition to Items of Interest on the 3W website, this article by Katie Ash explores the subject of “Supporting the use of multimedia-rich and interactive textbooks in K-12 will require much more digital bandwidth“ Most school districts have the technical infrastructure to support the basic digital textbooks of today. But as far as [...]
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Digital Ed. Advocate Outlines Vision for Common Core
Posted on August 17, 2012 by admin in Common-Core, Digital Classroom, Digital News, Digital Textbooks, OER, TechnologyAdam Frankel: “Ultimately, this is not just about preparing our kids for a test – it’s about preparing them for the world they will enter when they graduate and making sure our country can prosper in the 21st century” Thanks to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, the United States could be approaching [...]
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US Ignite is an initiative to promote ultra-fast broadband and software-defined networks
Posted on June 15, 2012 by Lee Stewart in Digital NewsThe US Federal Government is teaming with almost 100 partners to improve America’s broadband Internet with “US Ignite,” a new program that seeks to make it cheaper and easier for broadband construction in the USA – as well as the creation of apps and services to take advantage of that new Internet. The future of [...]
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Florida students can tote personal electronics into the classroom to connect to the Internet
Posted on May 30, 2012 by admin in Digital Classroom, Digital News, Digital TextbooksStudents at Lake Minneola High School spent the year reading from shiny, new iPads instead of textbooks, something many say helped them stay engaged with schoolwork. At the first-year school in Lake County, almost 2,000 gadgets infiltrated the classrooms. Theater students rehearsed with iPads instead of paper scripts, and math students could watch their teacher [...]
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