Does technology have the power to transform education?
Disruptors is a series of articles and opinion pieces commission by Virgin all loosely connected under the theme "Is education keeping up with the 21st century?" I like to think I can be as disruptive as anybody, and have responded to a commission to write about edtech with the following article: Does technology have the power to transform education? Undoubtedly. But not necessarily in the ways we expect and not necessarily for the better. Technology has been transforming education for as long as either have been in existence. Language, arguably the most crucial technological advancement in our history, moved education from mere mimicry [...]