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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

billion by 2023. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. spending on PreK-12 instructional technology steadily ticked upwards, from $2.6 billion to $3.3 Gartner projects that spending on U.S

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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