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In The Age Of Screen Time, Is Paper Dead?

What does the push for digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper?
Source: Paige Vickers for NPR

Paper ... or glass?

Advances in laptops and technology are pushing screens into schools like never before. So what does this drive toward digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper?

It may seem a wasteful and obsolete technology, ready to follow the slate chalkboard and the ditto machine into the Smithsonian. Or ... a flat, white invitation to creativity, just waiting for some learning magic to happen.

And when it comes to learning

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