The Image I Want to Put in People’s Minds When They Think About Edtech

People acquiring impressive skills so quickly that it's mind-bending.

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All the coolest tech started out weird, fringe, and geeky. Even the internet, even neural nets were once uncool… until people started successfully leveraging them to accomplish mind-bending things.

I want to see the same thing happen with edtech in my lifetime.

Learning calculus by 8th grade and undergrad math in high school once seemed like a prodigy-level feat, but with properly individualized instruction, this outcome is well within reach for at least the typical 90th or 95th percentile student (roughly the top half or third of a typical honors class), with the same time commitment as a typical class.

That’s the image I want to put in people’s minds when they think about edtech: people acquiring impressive skills so quickly that it’s mind-bending.

Not edutainment videos or arithmetic games where dinosaurs dance in front of you for answering 2+2 correctly.

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