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Apple wants to replace textbooks with iPads


Teacher's Got a Brand New Bag - Smithsonian Magazine

Apple's solution, naturally, is to replace textbooks with sleek, light, nimble iPads and its big announcement last week was that it's rolling ...

E-Textbooks to iPads: Do Teenagers Use Them? - Nieman Reports

Portability also was an important factor: With a textbook they could study in random places like at after-school games or practices or they ...

How Apple Lost Its Place in the Classroom - WIRED

For $299, you can give a kid an iPad—without a Pencil, without a Bluetooth keyboard—with a suite of brand new educational apps that students and ...

Patt Morrison | Will Apple's iPad mark the beginning of the end for ...

... like an audio book. You can do so much more with digital! Dave from Orange County • 12 years ago. IPads will not replace books. Reading a book on the ...

Will iPads Replace Textbooks In K-12 Classrooms? (NASDAQ:AAPL)

Tim Cook wants to put an iPad Mini in the hands of every K-12 student in America. While reviewers pick over Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) recent ...

Can Apple's iPad replace static textbooks? - TGDaily

Can Apple's iPad replace static textbooks? ... Remember those old tattered textbooks your teacher used to loan you at the beginning of the school ...

Saving your child's back – should iPads replace the textbook ...

... Apple to port textbook content to the iPad platform. ... Additionally, if students take notes or create documents on devices like an iPad, will an automated ...

Tablets vs. Textbooks - 15 Pros and Cons

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt tested an interactive, digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple's iPad in California's Riverside Unified School ...

Should Your School Replace Textbooks With E-Readers? (Opinion)

This February, President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan challenged the nation to transition to digital textbooksin the ...

The iPad Goes Back to School: This Time It's a Georgia Senator ...

There'll be fewer problems with theft or lost books, and when a student leaves the school, they'll simply pass their iPad back to the staff and ...

Apple Books, all new for iPhone and iPad, celebrates reading

Apple Books, which Apple previewed at the Worldwide Developers Conference last week, is a new app that has been entirely redesigned to make ...

Pro & Con Quotes: Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 ...

Apple, manufacturer of the iPad tablet and other technology hardware, in a July 2016 document titled “iPad in Education Results,” available from ...

IPad's Replacing Textbooks in School - Manhattan iPhone Repair

Are we finally seeing iPad's take over textbooks in school? If so, how will schools prevent kids from using the tablets from non educational purposes?

Will the State of Georgia Really Replace Textbooks With iPads?

Despite Apple's proposal (whatever that constitutes), these iPads will still need to be filled with textbook content (and contrary to the ...

How the iPad Is Quietly Replacing Textbooks -- and Teachers

The iPad took classrooms by storm in 2012, with Apple's third quarter sales to the education market nearly doubling year over year, to just ...

Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools?

... want all students to be able to learn from digital textbooks. ... Students who used an interactive, digital version of an Algebra 1 textbook for Apple's iPad in ...

Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad - Slashdot

'iPad books cost so much less it's a legal alternative for students who are using BitTorent [to pirate books].' Like the PC before it, Kohn ...

Technology / Q & A - Lewisville ISD

Is LISD replacing textbooks with digital content? LISD is transitioning ... The Apple App Store is available on the LISD secondary iPads. Students will ...

Using an iPad Air/Pro as a backup or replacement for a laptop

After I started using the keyboard, I wanted the functionality of a mouse or trackpad, so I added a Magic Mouse. Now I was carrying the iPad, keyboard and mouse ...

School Officials: iPads Won't Replace Textbooks Soon - Patch

Last week, Apple made an announcement about partnering with top ... Tablets like the iPad can hold thousands of books, and stand poised ...