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And their strategies have been very shallow: many upper middle class school districts went and purchased tablets and iPads for every student - but no software f
by bsenftner 10y ago
And their strategies have been very shallow: many upper middle class school districts went and purchased tablets and iPads for every student - but no software for them to use. Often the "technology" taught is more of a lesson to the teachers than the students - who have been playing with parents phones since birth... I consulted with a few of these education startups over the years, and not a single one I encountered felt like anything other than an investor scam.
- sliverstorm 10y agoThinking back, too, it was always the software that had an impact. Logo, Word, MATLAB, CAD tools, OneNote... most of that was running on clunky, antique machines, yet it brought more to my education than any glitzy IOT device.