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The Only Educational Gift You’ll Ever Need
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The Only Educational Gift You’ll Ever Need

Learning Resources is a leading global manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational products trusted by teachers and parents and loved by children. The company has over 1100 high-quality products sold in more than 80 countries, serving children and their families, preschool, kindergarten, primary, and middle-school markets. Among the Learning Resources' brands are Pretend & Play, Smart Snacks, New Sprouts, Gears! Gears! Gears!, Primary Science, Hands-On Standards publications, Rainbow Fractions and Reading Rods. Learning Resources supports teachers and parents by providing unique, high-quality educational tools that enhance instruction and provide engaging learning experiences that meet children's individual needs. SHOP NOW!
Making the most of K-12 digital textbooks and online educational tools
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Making the most of K-12 digital textbooks and online educational tools

Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m a professor who researches the use of technology in education. I’m also the father of three children between the ages of 4 and 9 who are all learning from home. You might think it would be easy for me to get used to this new normal. Sadly, that’s not true. Despite all my technical know-how, even I struggle to manage the large variety of digital tools and apps that my children use for schoolwork, let alone the numerous websites, accounts and passwords from their classes that my family has to keep track of. Beneficial but complex The transition from relying mainly on physical textb...