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Creative Problem Solving - Download Free Content from TED. STUDYBLUE | Make online flashcards & notes. Study anywhere, anytime. IntercomLanguageOnlineTools.pdf (Objecte application/pdf ) TeachersPayTeachers.com - An Open Marketplace for Original Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources. How To Easily Make Your Own Textbook. One of the latest buzz words in social media is curation. Some media analysts ponder whether the content curator might be the next big social media job of the future.

In a review of Steven Rosenbaum’s Curation Nation, Frank Paynter wrote that: ‘The job of curator has spread across the digital media world and may already have replaced “editor” and “publisher” in the minds of marketers and social media mavens’. What are the implications of curation in education? How will content curation impact the textbook market? Will it make textbooks irrelevant? We are seeing more and more publishers jumping into the digital textbook market but so far the digital editions are mere pdf versions of the hardcover versions. What? The Journal’s article: 5K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 includes: ‘Beyond the Digital Textbook’ as one of the trends with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks.

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