Name: Can Technology Aimed at Children Fix Education?.mov
Uploaded: 2016-01-12
Duration: 3 min 41 s

[ MUSIC ] When I talk to technologists in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. They look at education as just one of those really important kind of bedrocks of the economy. Bedrocks of our society. And yet, you know, they think it can do better. I think we both think it can do better. And somehow, it's been so so difficult to try to do that. Now, when you come. From a technologist's standpoint you want to throw technology at it and money at it and see if you can make it stick. Educations been so tough. Why do you think? Well these classrooms are forced to teach to the middle. Everyone learns at a different rate. Everybody has a different capacity. We're hard wired different ways. Different things push our buttons. You gotta find a way to meet the child, an individual child where they are. And if you don't have the money for a private tutor, if you will, or this real private school when you're gonna get that time on task appropriation, it's really difficult. That's why this is so exciting to me, because It does help meet a child individually where they are, even when they're playing it collectively. It meets them where they are. And it learns that child. And as it learns that child, it pushes that child. And it pulls that child along. And really, that's a, that's a key component to having success in a, in a classroom and certainly a component to having success with an individual, with your child at home. Yeah. And that's really interesting, too. Because personalization has been such a. A trend in technology. I mean, we own our phones, right? It tells us, hey, how's it going? Here's your calendar for the day. Here's X, Y, and Z for you. I think what you're touching on is that when applied to education, you know, it might actually help in a way that's better than What seems to be large head counts in classrooms and, you know, kind of a difficulty trying to get enough teachers into the classroom with you. Economically not feasible to pull it off on a mass scale. Having that teacher- student ratio for every public educational school in America. It's not, it's just not achievable. It's not feasible. So if you can Bring elements to the table, I think collectively, we can figure out some solutions to a pretty Dantean societal issue. And let me ask you, do you feel like these great technological tools that we say, all right, are they complements to the classroom experience? Do they replace it? We've talked about this a bunch at the college level, right? These big online classes. How should we be learning in the 21st century? Well, again, I think every child needs different things. For me, the socialization of being in a facility is a part of a growing experience as well, and I'm just speaking as a parent now. If I were to homeschool my children for any particular objective, whether I wanna push them Did it make them as smart as possible? Or whether I'm worried about their school environment and they're not safe, or whatever it might be. I'm also denying them a huge part of life, and the socializations, and decision making and problem solving that goes with it. So I think it's important to maintain that environment in most cases. This can be used individually at home if you want. It would be ideal, quite frankly, to entertain your kids and whether you're traveling in a car or in- And that's huge. That's huge. In the car, on a road trip. But also in a classroom. I've seen 20 kids at the same time interacting, and their concentration time actually expands when they see Other kids doing the same thing, and they sort of push and challenge each other. And as a result, I mean how do you deny them that opportunity? [ MUSIC ]