http://www.twigmore.com Branch Out Sat, 15 May 2010 15:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.twigmore.com/2010/02/apple-ipad-vs-kindle-dx-which-is-better-for-education/ http://www.twigmore.com/2010/02/apple-ipad-vs-kindle-dx-which-is-better-for-education/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:08:29 +0000 Peter Baer http://www.twigmore.com/?p=876 Interesting PCWorld blog on the pluses and minuses of each device.  The author points out that if the iPad doesn’t succeed as a consumer electronics device–its initial target market–it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.  The fledgling e-textbook market looks promising, and there’s little competition right now aside from the Kindle DX, which has undergone a few university trials in recent months, including one at Princeton University.  It seems likely that new technologies like these will be useful in educating more efficiently.

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