The End of the Printed Textbook. John Fallon, CEO of Pearson, spoke to podcaster Kara Swisher and said this:
"Once you get your head around that and you just accept that actually the $300 textbook is dead, we have to reinvent and make a future for this company around $40 to rent an ebook, $80 for a completely integrated package that provides much more personalization, adaptive assessment capabilities that support faculty."

Read full article here:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/2/20750863/john-fallon-pearson-education-textbook-digital-aida-teachers-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast?fbclid=IwAR3Neez_NIuDXACfv6TIYrM4Zdak081kVYQnfka0p2rVbn17kyHNneuzNew​ 

Fascinating Study on the Effects of Digital Learning on Learning Motivation and Learning Outcome. 
Results:
The research results conclude that 1. digital learning presents better positive effects on learning motivation than traditional teaching does, 2.digital learning shows better positive effects on learning outcome than traditional teaching does, 3.learning motivation reveals significantly positive effects on learning effect in learning outcome, and 4.learning motivation appears remarkably positive effects on learning gain in learning outcome. #learning #ebooks #digital #edtech

Read the full article here: http://www.ejmste.com/A-Study-of-the-Effects-of-Digital-Learning-on-Learning-Motivation-and-Learning-Outcome,69635,0,2.html?fbclid=IwAR3c6t0CCAfTgLP2Qbxv87cbpIxx5OW3tabqtpyEf_817GtmWUubUxDKUvc​ 

Do prepositions make you crazy? Don't worry - we can help! Our new Preposition Workbook is designed to help English students practice in, on and at. Download today! http://books.apple.com/us/book/id1489344453 

The Study It ESL textbooks are digital and interactive. Students can improve their grammar, conversation, pronunciation and listening skills with Study It. Download today!

The Study It Series Creator, Mr. James Rice, has launched a podcast for ESL students and teachers around the world called: The James Rice Show. Very original name! Visit www.thejamesriceshow.com for past episodes. James discusses topics for teachers and students plus gives English Tips and Teacher Tips. It is broadcast in over 60 countries around the world! Many teachers use different parts of the podcast including Idiom of the Week as part of their classes. 

You can subscribe to the podcast on the Stitcher App for Android users or Podcasts for the Apple Users. 

Remember the days when we used to buy a textbook and then supplement them with heaps of photocopies? Those days are long gone because now we can supplement our digital textbooks with many cool apps. And some of these apps are from the same authors and textbooks we used in the past! Recognize any below? 

I love to see the Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use book as an app. When I was a new teacher, this book helped a lot. But, sometimes students were forced to buy the entire book just to study a few grammar points that troubled them. I never liked that. This app has corrected that problem. Now students can buy either the full app or sections in the app to help them with specific grammar issues. Wonderful! It is a great app to supplement our textbooks and give students more practice.

In our Study It english textbooks we supply you with some cool apps to help improve your classroom activities based around the content we have created. Some are new...and some are tried and true. 

​Don't you hate those really dry and boring Fill in the Blank exercises in ESL textbooks. They are so 1990's! We love the Comic Book! app. 
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With this app, we are able to practice English in a really fun and engaging manner. Teachers use this app in many different ways. The most popular way to use it is to give students a specific tenses, specific verbs or specific situations and they have to create a Comic Book! It is very cool. 
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What we love about the Comic Book! app is that students can take their own photos and import them into the app. The app transforms them into the Comic Book style. So beyond just using the app to create sentences or a story, students must get visually creative too. It is another element that helps with the learning process. 


At the end of all this great, creative work, students can export it as a PDF and share with their teachers, their friends and right on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram too. 


Give the Comic Book! app try and you will never want to do those boring, old fill in the blanks exercises again!