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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. Aaron Swartz, 2008. One Laptop Per Child.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” From the Republican National Convention: TurnItIn was pleased , I’m sure, to be invoked many times following Melania Trump ’s convention speech, which plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama ’s 2008 speech. Via The Washington Post : “ Donald Trump Jr. trashes U.S.