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States are slowly moving toward the U.S. government’s mandate that all K-12 students use digital textbooks by 2017, officials say. In February, Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, revealed the Digital eLearning Playbook, which calls for the implementation of digital textbooks and content in schools, Stateline.org reported Monday. “It we want American students [...]

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  It started as an effort to allow consumers to change health insurance plans without being penalized for existing medical conditions. But the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, also set rules on patient privacy, putting new restrictions on public disclosure throughout the health care industry. In some instances, hospitals now will not [...]

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BOYNTON BEACH — Each year more than 2,500 educators attend the annual School District of Palm Beach County’s Technology Conference. This year’s conference is set for Monday, March 26 at Santaluces Community High School in Boynton Beach. The theme is, “We Have an App for That: Innovative Teachers.” Teachers and administrators from other public and [...]

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The Middletown Township Public Schools District is celebrating and rewarding those who rose to and met tech challenges in February. What’s your favorite, least favorite tech tool? In an effort to infuse technology directly into classroom instruction and keep staff and students on the cutting edge of digital technology, the Middletown schools district initiated what [...]

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By Patrick May It’s midmorning and the faces of the students in Tim Wesmiller’s religious studies class are bathed in the baby-blue glow of their iPad screens. Instead of sitting in rigid rows of desks staring at a blackboard, as they would in a typical classroom, kids huddle in groups to brainstorm and blog about [...]

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Kyle Beasley is a smart second-grader with an infectious grin. He’s also functionally blind. Until last fall, the 7-year-old used 8-by-11-inch Braille texts that teachers printed for him on a special machine. Each page cost about $1. He once had four lockers just to store his textbooks. Today, the student at Roosevelt Elementary School in [...]

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THIS week a Torfaen secondary school went live with laptops and a contemporary learning management system as part of a £14 million digital learning project. Abersychan Secondary School along with Monmouth Comprehensive School in Monmouthshire were the first schools to pilot the learning management system and receive laptops for all pupils aged 14 to 16. [...]

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In my previous EDCompass blog posts, I described our journey at Lebanon High School researching technology implementation and development of the SMART Worldwide Effective Learning Lab (SWELL). For this post I am excited to share our unique way of facilitating professional development at Lebanon High School. Dialogue that always occurs when discussing the proper use [...]

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Kids make up a large portion of the ebook audience. Very often when a parent buys a new device–whether a tablet, smartphone, or ereader–the previous device gets turned over to the kids. As a result, the amount of electronic children’s offerings available is growing, both revamped classics as well as new titles designed as ebooks [...]