When critics blame remote learning technology for isolating students, they miss the point. The underappreciated superpower of next-generation “edtech” is in fact, connection.
The Covid-19 stay-at-home orders caught the vast majority of educational institutions underprepared. For many the transition to remote learning came literally overnight; no wonder there were imperfections.
It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss future iterations of remote learning tech. In a recent survey by McKinsey, 65 percent of students and 90 percent of educators agreed that learning technologies have a positive effect on connectivity and community building.
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