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I can't speak for VC, but, the way we look at education itself needs to change. The current system was built for a post war industrialisation era. I am not sayi
by krishadi 3y ago
I can't speak for VC, but, the way we look at education itself needs to change. The current system was built for a post war industrialisation era. I am not saying that it is right or wrong, but bringing in new technology to a system that was built for a different time and society is perhaps not ideal. I think the biggest EdTech out there is YouTube. I've built out a career from the content there is in YouTube. The content itself isn't pay walled, there is enough incentive for content creation and there isn't a single structure that decides what you should do or learn next. All of this is up to the user.
It could also be argued that content itself is educative to prompt the user to think, and act on what to do next. But, I am not sure how disconnected is that process from the recommendation algorithms.
Well, the food for thought is, perhaps what we need from Edtech is not to solve the problems of the past generations, but to change the way we educate ourselves.