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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005.

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