Graham Brown-Martin
1 min readSep 28, 2017

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Do you really mean “learn” here or are you confusing learning with remembering content ready to regurgitate it in an arbitrary exam designed by the multi-$billion measurement industry?

I’d suggest the mistake that this article makes, like so many articles promoting computer technology in education, is that it conflates memorising with learning by thinking that an enhancement is generated by simply digitising the 19th century standard model of education & then scaling it.

This demonstrates a very narrow and reductionist understanding of what education, school, teaching and learning is about as well as the role of a qualified human teacher.

The belief that a piece of software or technology can magically adapt itself to a child’s changing needs, unique talents, passions, and interests is naive technological utopianism that conveniently ignores the limits of technological platforms whilst diminishing the role of the human.

I agree that VR, AR, AI, etc all have valuable roles in education, guided by skilful qualified practitioners, but the idea of students being strapped into a learning machine to have knowledge poured into their heads isn’t visionary and explains why, thankfully, we don’t see 30 kids in a room learning from computer screens in a kind of automated call centre for students in, what would be, an educational dystopia.

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Graham Brown-Martin
Graham Brown-Martin

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