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Apple announces lower cost iPads
Apple has announced a new and less expensive iPad. The new iPad comes at two price points – $329 and $429 depending on storage capacity (32 or 129 gigabytes – wifi versions – education price may be slightly lower). The … Continue reading
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New Google investment in world-wide education
Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has announced a new worldwide education initiative intended to address equity and issues. In addition to infrastructure provided by Google, the donation funds specific initiatives hosted by partners. Among the investments U.S. teachers might recognize would … Continue reading
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Google Vision for Education
Google Cloud Next offers Google the opportunity to share the company’s vision on many topics. Among these topics is what Google sees as the future of education (YouTube video of session). The focus of the presentation is on how teachers … Continue reading
Web annotation now has a standard and why it matters
The opportunity to highlight and annotate the web pages of third parties has been available for some time. Such consumer additions offer advantages in education and for the concept of the participatory web. The limitation of what has been available … Continue reading
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It isn’t about choice if you have no choices
The net neutrality issue has again returned to my radar with the new administrator and a new FCC director. New director Pai is moving to remove net neutrality expectations suggesting that “zero rating” offers customers opportunities and not restrictions. Zero-rating … Continue reading
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Google docs/keep integrated
I am a sucker for ways to improve my reading/writing workflow. If you are a blogger, student, or teacher, you likely have similar needs. My “go to” approach has been to collect ideas and content in Evernote and then write … Continue reading
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