Name: How Tennis Player Andre Agassi Got Involved in EdTech.mov
Uploaded: 2016-01-12
Duration: 2 min 56 s

[ MUSIC ] So today a lot of parents are worried about screen time. This is a big issue. We ourselves spend probably too much time on our phones and our tablets and our laptops, but now you've got these educational tools that That are offered through these channels. What do you think about them? What do you think about a tablet computer than can teach a kid how to speak and learn? What do you make of these technologies? Well, I think to be precise about my perspective in this industry If you can use it for healthy benefit of our next generation. I mean that's part of the world we have to live in. Even if you really don't want em in front of too many screens then set the example. They do what they see not what you tell em in my experience. But if they get that time To actually be able to have something that's helping them take the next step forward and for them to be productive as a result of that time. It is a huge win. Yeah. So, this is one of the products that you're involved with. It's pretty neat. How did you become involved with it? How did this become part of the strategy for your foundation? Well, it's I got a pitch quite frankly from a very direct pitch and I get them a lot and you know throughout the year. And I'm used to saying no but the synergy and the overlap that exist between what this start- up is attempting to do and how it's attempting to do it and what my mission is across the country and help plan my part in fixing A broken educational system on many levels. It was just something that I couldn't turn down. I saw kids using it and how they were using it. And how it was stretching their concentration time and how it was entertaining them at the same time. They didn't even recognize they were learning. That's something, listen it's easy to invest in something, right? It's easy to just hit send on the wiring instructions and you're invested. What's hard is. Carrying enough to give your time, energy and brand. And I'm gonna do everything I can to make this successful because I believe it will change the trajectory of a kid's learning and experience throughout. The rest of their educational life. Yeah, when you saw kids using this, when you saw this for the first time, what were you thinking? When you were watching them, what was going through your mind? I was thinking, why can't my kids concentrate like this? [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] No, especially at that age when I was in an airplane with them traveling around the world. But that was I think that was the real selling point for me. It's great if you have the technology that can teach certain things. But if a kid doesn't wanna use it, what good is it gonna do? So watching what it can do and then watching how it does it, that's what sent me over the top. [ MUSIC ]