{"id":944,"date":"2015-03-19T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:49:10","slug":"are-apps-going-to-replace-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/are-apps-going-to-replace-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Apps Going to Replace Textbooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right; margin-left:20px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5042102399833742\";\n\/* blog *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1394526448\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Printed textbooks have long been used as the centre of education, but as the aeon of paper books has transpired, traditional textbooks face great challenges to serve as the main mode of deliverance of education. It is a common perception now that digital technology holds great potential to improve institutional learning. In just a few yeas, tablets become popular in\u00a0the classroom and are gradually changing the landscape of education. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=319\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Apps<\/a> emerge as the main format to aid teaching and learning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=352\" target=\"_blank\">Apps<\/a> can easily contain all the information a textbook can, but with additional ability to enrich users\u2019 learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>1. Apps facilitate personalized study.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike rigid textbook that offers the same content, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=319\" target=\"_blank\">educational Apps<\/a> provides more accessible and personal for learners, allowing students to progress towards common standards but through different routes, employing different pathways of learning and assessment.\u00a0Even with the same subject, Apps allow students to study in different ways, at different paces and styles according to their differentiated need. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=352\" target=\"_blank\">Apps<\/a> also can help students with special learning needs, such as facilitating vocabulary acquisition of learners with language barriers or offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=422\" target=\"_blank\">personalized instructions <\/a>to students facing bewildering social situations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-947\" alt=\"app_textbook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/app_textbook.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/app_textbook.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/app_textbook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/app_textbook-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/app_textbook-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>2. Apps engage learners in a highly interactive\u00a0environment.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot program with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=923\" target=\"_blank\">iPad in schools<\/a> reveals changing the format of the content can improve students\u2019 attentiveness in the classroom. When the worn textbooks been replaced with educational Apps containing built-in videos, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=293\" target=\"_blank\">animations<\/a> and quizzes, students immediately showed more energy in them and were &#8220;more motivated, attentive, and engaged&#8221;. It is also possible to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=208\" target=\"_blank\">gamify<\/a> the process of learning through Apps, taking advantage of humans\u2019 psychological predisposition, game-based learning can make education more interesting, intriguing and relevant to modern kids.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; margin-right:20px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5042102399833742\";\n\/* blog *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1394526448\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>3. Apps are mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Apps, running on portable electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets, can easily be accessed without any constraints of a particular place or without any limitation to boundary. Apps can easily integrate technology features such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=238\" target=\"_blank\">GPS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=531\" target=\"_blank\">camera<\/a>, accelerometer etc. to help students connect practical learning together with theoretical experiences.\u00a0Learning no longer restricts to the classrooms, learners be able to gain control of their own learning and choose whenever and wherever they learn.<\/p>\n<p>4. Apps encourage collaborative learning.<\/p>\n<p>With the ability to connect to the Internet, Apps provide ways of facilitating teaching and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=798\" target=\"_blank\">learning collaborations<\/a>. Social Apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest etc. have become a part of modern students\u2019 daily lives and can also be used as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=840\" target=\"_blank\">network platforms for learning <\/a>purposes. App technology can connect people worldwide upon common\u00a0interests; it is possible for students sitting in America and China to work on the same project and subsequently develop knowledge and skills through these connections.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right; margin-left:20px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5042102399833742\";\n\/* blog *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1394526448\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Future<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since the traditional textbooks no longer fulfil modern students\u2019 needs, the industry is obligated for a revolutionary.\u00a0Tablet is here and it indicates the forthcoming probability. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=352\" target=\"_blank\">Educational App<\/a> can easily integrate diversified learning materials and pathways, seamlessly link school learning and personal development, it should play a key role in developing comprehensive solutions for future education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TouchApp_uk\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/twitter.png\" alt=\"twitter\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-686\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TouchApp_uk\" rel=\"publisher\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"position:absolute; margin-left:40px; margin-top:10px;\"><b>Follow us on Twitter: @TouchApp_uk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\nFrom Mobile App development company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>TouchApp<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-395\" alt=\"touchapp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/touchapp-300x41.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/touchapp-300x41.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/touchapp-624x85.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.touchapp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/touchapp.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printed textbooks have long been used as the centre of education, but as the aeon of paper books has transpired, traditional textbooks face great challenges to serve as the main mode of deliverance of education. 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