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Which is better for students — reading paper or reading digitally? We were all supposed to live in a Star Trek world with all reading done electronically and paper books, including textbooks, an antiquated curiosity.  How’s that working out …

Microsoft has long reigned the productivity software market, but with the emergence of cloud-based computing, Google seems to follow suit. We now look at these two to decide which one is better, the Microsoft Office 365 or the Google …

Lesson Plan Tool for Docs enables you search for standards-aligned lesson plan resources within your Google Documents.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/07/a-new-lesson-plan-tool-for-google-docs.html…

What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other? Two experiments at two very different California schools aimed to find out.…

Audio books have surged in popularity in recent years, enabled by their ease of use and advancements in smart phones. Gone are the days of numbered cassettes and bulky players. Technology has created more opportunities to listen to good …

Say you’re scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain. Maybe your mother’s birthday is coming up, and Facebook’s showing ads for her local florist. Whatever …

The old model of a teacher delivering a one-way message through a lecture is no longer engaging 21st-century students.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-tapscott/universities-must-enter-t_b_11306140.html…

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2016 list, compiled by the Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies and published in collaboration with Scientific American, highlights technological advances its members believe have the power to improve lives, transform industries and safeguard the …

The New York Public Library is working on a software project that liberates every part of the electronic book lending system from any kind of proprietary lock-in, and, in the process, made reading library ebooks one trillion times better.…

And sure, you may use Gmail all day, every day, but are you really getting the most out of it? Here are 25 tips, tricks, and time-savers for even the most seasoned of Gmail pros.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3062551/app-economy/the-ultimate-guide-to-gmail-productivity-25-must-have-tips-tricks-and-time-saver…

UX innovator discusses what forward-thinking schools are doing now, and what AI in education will look like in the near future.

http://www.ecampusnews.com/disruptions-and-innovations/ai-educations-future/…

Google Earth Pro used to cost a staggering $400 a year, but in case you haven’t heard, the intuitive mapping program is now free.  The process is relatively straightforward and quick.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-get-google-earth-pro-for-free/…

From the world of open source, here comes a great news. The Bulgarian government has passed a law that has made the use of open source software in government offices compulsory.  

http://fossbytes.com/bulgaria-makes-law-requiring-government-software-open-source/…