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Today - David Risher from WorldReader.org on "Books for All"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As of November 2012, Worldreader has wirelessly distributed more than 245,000 African and international e-books to children in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, and the children spend up to 50% more time reading than before, with some reading up to 90 books in a single year. That’s our library,” replied the orphanage’s leader.

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‘We want a kid you don’t have any idea what to do with’

The Hechinger Report

Emily Kaplan, for The Hechinger Report. At least once a week, the student and teacher meet to choose academic units from Edgenuity’s library — all the lessons are aligned to California state standards and are curated by the school — and to schedule times for the student to take Edgenuity’s unit exams on campus. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.”

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