The EdTech Revolution Has Failed

We'll do/try/pay for anything except for teachers and good teaching

Tech is considered scalable, human resources and interactions are not.

Here in Canada teachers are paid well but we still don't want to pay for good resources. Anything where money is going into overhead that's separate from teaching students is viewed with a stink-eye. They killed textbooks and replaced them with nothing.

Think about how many teachers are out there scrounging up and making up their lesson materials, tests, etc. because state/provincial bodies don't provide that content top-down, even as an optional resource for them to draw upon. Then teachers are told "also you need to accommodate all these special cases where students have distinct educational needs" but the basic easy stuff that could've been pre-made is consuming all the time they should've been able to spend "personalizing".

that's true! I think in a hundred years we'll learn that some things almost always degrade with scale, no matter how much we try