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Amazon's Audible makes hundreds of children's audiobooks free

Amazon's Audible makes hundreds of children's audiobooks free | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The audiobooks will be free for as long as schools remain closed..."

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Thirteen fantastic places to find background music for video 

Thirteen fantastic places to find background music for video  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We've scoured the internet to find some of the best places to find high-quality background music for video that will give your content a professional feel ..."

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Tech’s frightful five: They’ve got us

Tech’s frightful five: They’ve got us | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google dominate our day-to-day activities. Imagining being forced to give up some of them could lead to hard choices ..."

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Cool Cat Teacher’s gift list 2016 edition

Cool Cat Teacher’s gift list 2016 edition | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If you’ve ever struggled to buy presents like I do, you probably ask people what they like to buy. Therefore, I am always looking at the blogs and newsletters of the edtech gurus and leaders I love to see what they love ALREADY ..."

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Google, Facebook and Amazon form council to decide AI ethics

Google, Facebook and Amazon form council to decide AI ethics | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
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What Amazon's homepage looked like when it launched 21 years ago this month

What Amazon's homepage looked like when it launched 21 years ago this month | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Long before it became the world's go-to, online source for virtually anything, Amazon.com was strictly a bookseller ..."

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Stealing books in the age of self-publishing

Stealing books in the age of self-publishing | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Many authors who sell their work directly on platforms like Amazon are having their stories plagiarized, which can take an emotional and financial toll ..."

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Amazon launches math education movement

Amazon launches math education movement | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The campaign wants to change the way students think about their frustrations with math, a subject that more than half of young adults say they’re not good at ..."

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How Amazon might accidentally kill creativity

How Amazon might accidentally kill creativity | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I rely on books.
As an author of five books, I believe in the power of them and as a trend curator and University Professor I consume many of them ..."

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Amazon to pay Kindle authors only for pages read

Amazon to pay Kindle authors only for pages read | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon's new system will cut the royalties for self-published authors who fail to hold a reader's attention until the final page ..."

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Amazon's making digital homework easier to assign, ugh

Amazon's making digital homework easier to assign, ugh | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If you've ever seen a 6th grader lugging around a 30 pound backpack, you'll understand the allure of e-readers and tablets as a replacement for tradition ..."

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Why millions of grownups are buying these coloring books for adults

Why millions of grownups are buying these coloring books for adults | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon's Top 100 book list changes hourly, but there are a few mainstays right now: All the Light We Cannot See, of course, and the unreleased Go Set a Watchman. Oh, and two coloring books for grownups ..."

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Using Amazon Alexa in the classroom

Using Amazon Alexa in the classroom | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Voice-controlled devices are here to stay, and it is time for you to embrace this technology in the classroom. With Amazon Alexa working through the inexpensive Echo Dot using Wi-Fi, you can transform your classroom into an interactive learning space ..."

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Shadow HPC moves to the cloud -- Campus Technology

Shadow HPC moves to the cloud -- Campus Technology | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft are luring college and university researchers to bypass IT for cloud-based high-performance computing resources ..."

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Amazon launches a subscription service for STEM toys

Amazon launches a subscription service for STEM toys | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon today unveiled a new subscription program aimed at parents called STEM Club, which delivers educational toys to your home for $19.99 per month. The ..."

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What can Alexa do? Here’s a new way to discover her skills

What can Alexa do? Here’s a new way to discover her skills | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Find out about Amazon's new Alexa Skills section that lets you easily discover skills for the digital assistant ..."

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Colleges give up on bookstores, just send students to Amazon

Colleges give up on bookstores, just send students to Amazon | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon pickup points on college campuses, which have been sprouting up at schools across the country, have two purposes: they exist to alleviate the strain that college students with Prime membership …."

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Why you need to understand machine learning

Why you need to understand machine learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"From picking stocks to finding partners, machine learning plays a part in every stage of our lives - yet most of us know little about these powerful tools ..."

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Twenty-five incredibly useful free sites and services

Twenty-five incredibly useful free sites and services | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Save time, protect your privacy, stash some cash, and more with these no-cost wonders ..."

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How Barnes and Noble is hitting back against Amazon—with coloring books

How Barnes and Noble is hitting back against Amazon—with coloring books | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

'These aren't easy times for Barnes & Noble, the book seller that's holding its own amid vicious online competition from Amazon. Even if you don't shop in its stores, it's hard not to cheer the 142-year-old retailer on ..."

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Avoiding Amazon? The five best alternatives to the online bookseller giants - The Independent

Avoiding Amazon? The five best alternatives to the online bookseller giants - The Independent | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon has been the subject of renewed criticism after an expose of its employment practices in the New York Times ..."

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Three ways one university created a new higher-ed model - eCampus News

Three ways one university created a new higher-ed model - eCampus News | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Building their new model on an open approach, a university found exceptional student outcomes ..."

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Will technology like Amazon's Dash button make us stupid? - TIME

Will technology like Amazon's Dash button make us stupid? - TIME | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We need to consider whether easier really is always better ..."

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Amazon FreeTime Unlimited gets a lot more content

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited gets a lot more content | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Amazon announced the addition of some new content to its Amazon FreeTime Unlimited kids offering (previously known as Kindle FreeTime Unlimited) ..."

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