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As a former middle school teacher - I feel like I've seen the writing on the wall since the early 2000s, and yet for some reason manual education is very sticky
by JackMorgan 7y ago
As a former middle school teacher - I feel like I've seen the writing on the wall since the early 2000s, and yet for some reason manual education is very sticky in our society. I suspect that there will be a sudden tipping point where schools remain physical but students are all doing most learning on individualized learning plans, but I'm unsure when that will be. I would've guessed 10 years ago, but here we are.
I suspect teachers unions play a big part.
- lonelappde 7y agoSchools already do a lot of online edtech education at daycare (school). The larger barrier to personalized education is that it leads to less equal outcomes, as healthy rich kids with supportive parents tend to excel while hungry poor people from broken homes do not. That gets a lot of pushback from "equity and access" activists in the school administration who believe that no one deserves a great education (certainly not publicly funded one) until systemic socioeconomic inequalities are fixed first.