As technology evolves and becomes increasingly widespread into our lives it seeps into our classrooms as well. Generally, there is an accepted idea that the further we develop our technology and the more it becomes integrated into every day lives, … Continue reading
The advent of this new era of technology has created a definite schism between publication media writers and those who would avail to the new technological field. I, myself tend to agree with Watters in his argument against Apple’s creation … Continue reading
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/1st-Gen-iPad-WiFi-iBooks.jpg/220px-1st-Gen-iPad-WiFi-iBooks.jpg Audrey Watters has many good points in her article about Apple and their potential future in the eTextbook market. She focused primarily on K-12 education, which is an interesting standpoint. Maybe it’s because I went to a poorer school … Continue reading
What is a textbook? To my understanding, it is a collection of various research presented in a fashion to teach the broad understanding of the field. Now, how do you improve this? Simply put, you make the information more assessable … Continue reading
Digital books or E-books are a great way to organize all your books on one device and not have loads and loads of paper all through out the house. Paper books are in my opinion so much more visually and … Continue reading
I had really never given much thought to the many revolutions in reading until this very moment. While I was reading “10 Reading Revolutions before E-books” (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/10-reading-revolutions-before-e-books/62004/) something really grabbed my attention. The fact that reading has come so far … Continue reading
This collection of readings we had to read this week were all about digital textbooks, and the revolution of text. One author focused on how Apple plans to “transform” the text book industry. Good luck with that Apple. I just … Continue reading
Jane McGonigal’s: Gaming Can Make a Better World was a video that for the first ten minutes I was going to judge as absolutely ridiculous until I reached the end. In the beginning, I though her claims … Continue reading
Honestly, I was not looking forward to this weeks readings. I’m not a ‘gamer’ and every time I have tried to play a game like World of Warcraft, I can’t even get pass the tutorial level without getting eaten by … Continue reading
Cow Clicker really hit the nail on the head when it came to mocking a Facebook game. I’m all for video games, especially first-person shooters like Call of Duty, but when it comes to something like Farmville, I don’t find … Continue reading