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Isn't this just a subset of "all educational innovations don't scale". Education is chock-full of things that looked great at small scale and then fail to repli
by freddie_mercury 2y ago
Isn't this just a subset of "all educational innovations don't scale". Education is chock-full of things that looked great at small scale and then fail to replicate at large scale. Given that long established reality, which is well known within the education field, the alleged scaling nature of software no longer seems like some great win, since you're likely just quickly scaling out something that doesn't actually work.
- authorfly 2y agoAre there some examples of this from the past few decades?
- em-bee 2y agothere is that, but that's not true for all changes. the problem is that even innovations that do work and can be replicated successfully do not scale because the system as it is is highly resistive to change and that is what limits the potential to scale for any change. take a look at montessori. an often praised and proven system of teaching and learning that absolutely revolutionizes education, if we could only convince those in charge to adopt it.