Can Technology Transform Education? How?
'Education' seems to be the new buzzword these days. Everyone's talking about transforming education and wondering how it can be changed. Lot of people have been advocating the use of technology to bring the much desired change to technology. There are several startups operating in the space and I had an opportunity to listen to the founder of one such startup at TiEcon Nagpur 2011. What I found out that most of the startups working to change the education are actually working on the 'technology' part of it - or say how the education is delivered to students. While I agree that audio/video and presentations could be effective they fail big way in transforming what's being delivered.
Think about it - changing the way we show information in textbooks to the world will not change the 'education' we're trying to change. Technology may enable us deliver the content in innovative ways but is it the thing that need to change?
I think the content taught to different age / intelligence groups has to be changed. Technology alone cannot bring the desired change to education.
What's your take?