{"id":13930,"date":"2015-03-08T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-executives-spent-most-of-the-meeting-touting\/"},"modified":"2015-03-08T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:00:14","slug":"the-executives-spent-most-of-the-meeting-touting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-executives-spent-most-of-the-meeting-touting\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The executives spent most of the meeting touting the evolving market, namely how their newfound allegiance to digital learning materials\u2014rather than old-school physical textbooks\u2014would place them at the forefront of the new wave of education technology. Rhetoric describing the company\u2019s unmatched innovation pervaded the hour-long meeting; they raved about the company\u2019s across-the-board shift to digital, how its new state-of-the-art materials comprise a &ldquo;single roadmap&rdquo; that is expected to make its generic, stodgy textbooks obsolete. They largely dismissed us as we\u2014online journalists and Millennials in our mid-20s\u2014reminisced about physical books that can be held, highlighted, and leafed through. And it quickly became evident that these men expected us to marvel at the company\u2019s developments because, as soon as they noticed our eyes weren\u2019t lighting up, they balked: &ldquo;I don\u2019t think you understand how groundbreaking this is,&rdquo; one of them said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/03\/the-death-of-textbooks\/387055\/\">The Death of Textbooks? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executives spent most of the meeting touting the evolving market, namely how their newfound allegiance to digital learning materials\u2014rather than old-school physical textbooks\u2014would place them at the forefront of the new wave of education technology. Rhetoric describing the company\u2019s unmatched innovation pervaded the hour-long meeting; they raved about the company\u2019s across-the-board shift to digital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3CG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}