Kevin Gaugler | January 31, 2010
The other day Wesley Fryer had some wonderful comments on his blog about my thoughts on the iPad. I figured I would repost his ideas here along with my response. How do you feel about Apple’s gated model of distribution? Will it ultimately imped access to information and consequently teaching and learning? Wesley Fryer: I [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 27, 2010
Before Apple’s big announcement today, I made a prediction that Apple’s device would disrupt the textbook industry and consequently education, particularly language education, as we know it. Apple has built its iPad on the same popular platform that runs both the iPod Touch and the iPhone and has added a bookstore to its iTunes application [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 27, 2010
Yesterday on CNBC Terry McGraw of McGraw-Hill revealed that the company has been in detailed talks about bringing e-books to the soon-to-be launched Apple Tablet. The announcement from Steve Jobs today will certainly have a revolutionary affect on how we think about textbooks, particularly language textbooks. Imagine having a book in full color that has all media embedded [...]