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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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But when he and the head of the UN Kofi Annan went to demo the device, its signature feature — a hand crank that would power it — fell off. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” Because we have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

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