Digital+Textbook+Summit

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Digital textbooks adopted by: Mexico Japan Singapore Australia is updating to interactive textbooks

=Brian Bridges, Director of CLRN= Virginia adopted a textbook they only lightly reviewed only to find after it was adopted and distributed it was found it had 100s of factual errors. The author said that "he found it on the internet."

Stage 1 - adopted open source PDF linear textbooks Stage 2 - many formerly submitted textbooks that did not meet all the standards, were re-written to be 100% compliant began to have embedded videos Stage 3 - opened to commercial company submissions

Three kinds -linear digital PDF books, no internet connection (Phase 1) -eBook format only for eReaders, embed video, content not somewhere else -two-way interactivity & learning analytics

Explana - online blog Florida, Indiana, Texas adoptions

digital camera invented 1994 not adopted until 2001 (tipping point) 2016 - 39%
 * predicted tipping point for digital textbooks 2015 - 19%**

if every student needs to have a textbook and they are only available online, the students either need it printed out or need a digital device to read it.

=CK12 Foundation STEM - Ashwin Patel= non-profit delivery education material for schools, customizable textbooks, books that learn about the student, help student to meet student need, modularized for advanced and low readers, see if the students watched a video, answered questions after reading two paragraphs modularized for internet connectivity or not allow teacher/school to manipulate content of the textbook e.g. a school that re-wrote a book for low level readers WHAT SCHOOL? Leadership Public Charter School options: print, Kindle, iPad, Nook, CD, print, USB driver, Google Books, Amazon, Lulu

=Bob Ansi - Discovery Education= DE Techbook -configurable for every state - WEBSITE? http://discoveryeducation.com California, Oregon, Indiana, Texas digital textbook adoption Rqtms: needs to rigorous, platform agnostic, digital content to prepare teacher to use content, not all instruction is done 1to1, how does a textbook support 1 to many.

=Daniel Peer- Regional Vice Presdient for NW Pearson Publisher= 30% of revenue from digital sources in past 10 years has not produced a digital and physical version of it virtual and blended models have more potential for impacting learning

=John Sipe from Houghton Mifflin= publishing testing, pro dev, data analysis, Headed toward: developed Algebra App - HMH Fuse how does it improve student app. This is their only text and only assessment. Long Beach, Fresno USD Device helped them get a lot of analytics run by Empirical Education video and reteaching teacher reporting

Bill Edburger - the Math guy like Bill Nye of

Mindshift - blog

data released this summer on this study grades, engagement, participation all going up. Geometry Algebra II app coming next.

Q&A iAnnotate - write on PDFs Negroponte - $99 tablet next year OLPC