Following on just a little here.. much of the latter part of this Twitter thread is about trying to take sure that education is the primary objective, that tech

Following on just a little here.. much of the latter part of this Twitter thread is about trying to take sure that education is the primary objective, that tech does not lead. I continue to think that there's little sign educators have any chance to develop & support more healthy "creator" centric tech in the current environments (which is the sole positive/pro- tech thing this Twitter thread encourages). We're not going to get good at using computers to teach math or langauge or science, so long as computers themselves are a prescriptivist tool, so long as we don't empower people to be competent & capable & comprehending of technology. XOPC tried valiantly to set a powerful new relationship up between the student & their computer. It tried to make tech not just a tool for teaching, but to make tech open terrain a pupil could wander through, understand, learn about, on their way to their other tasks. This to me is so very much more interesting & ennabling than what I think of as the purpose-minded "how can we make test scores go up" learning that I see as the focus of this twitter thread. This author is probably right about what current tech startups need to do. But he's wrong about what the future really needs.