Unserious Edtech is Rotting Your Brain

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Your brain gets really soft when you avoid hard thinking. And that’s so common now, right?

I mean, a lot of mainstream ed tech tries to make math feel really fun and effortless. All you gotta do is, is watch a little video and answer 1 or 2 conceptual questions.

And if you get them wrong, ah, that’s okay. As long as you’re having fun, kid.

It’s just so much fluff and so little actual thinking, actual working out problems, actual retaining what you learned and being made to demonstrate it again the next day, the next week, the next month…

actually being held accountable for all that.

Further reading: You Know it’s Edutainment When… .

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