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7 innovative 3D printers for the classroom

eSchool News

In fact, from 2011 to 2015, government business intelligence company Onvia awarded $1,809,298 in 3D printer and supply contracts to 44 primary, secondary and higher education institutions and school districts across the United States. Featured on eSchool News Resource STEM Top News 3D printers construction engineering maker movement'

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). The Maker Movement. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011.

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Top Ed-Tech Trends: A Review

Hack Education

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. The Maker Movement. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011. Investment dollars were down, if nothing else.

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