Comments on: Education technology is widely used, but growth in achievement has not followed https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/education-technology-is-widely-used-but-growth-in-achievement-has-not-followed/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/education-technology-is-widely-used-but-growth-in-achievement-has-not-followed/comment-page-1/#comment-3762351 Gaikokumaniakku Mon, 04 May 2026 14:39:14 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54219#comment-3762351 The bug was probably due to a split tab in Brave. Ahem, as I was saying, if Khan does not enthrall 95% of the students who get thrown at it (perhaps by tiger moms resembling Yuen Qiu playing the landlady from Kung Fu Shuffle), then competitors should take the big risk of launching competitive services that engage students even more than Khan Academy does. Doing so in an age where students can use AI-LLMs to search for answers is tricky.

(I just tried posting a comment without a split tab and got another 503 page.)

]]> By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/education-technology-is-widely-used-but-growth-in-achievement-has-not-followed/comment-page-1/#comment-3762350 Gaikokumaniakku Mon, 04 May 2026 14:35:46 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54219#comment-3762350 My gloriously dry wit was lost to a 503 error page. Is the server working now?

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/education-technology-is-widely-used-but-growth-in-achievement-has-not-followed/comment-page-1/#comment-3762348 Jim Sun, 03 May 2026 02:06:38 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54219#comment-3762348 And, yes, I am, in fact, proposing to make teenagers mayors, sheriffs, auditors, aspiring defense contractors, movie directors, CIA spooks, USPIS wagies, field generals, and whatever else. It’ll be hilarious.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/education-technology-is-widely-used-but-growth-in-achievement-has-not-followed/comment-page-1/#comment-3762347 Jim Sun, 03 May 2026 02:00:46 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54219#comment-3762347 Thirty minutes per week is comically little. People spend that much time zipping and unzipping their trousers. Mastery is produced when innate ability meets external motivation, and external motivation is based either on avoiding risk or seeking reward. “We just need to motivate these kids” talk invariably stems from the same basic weaselry as corporate “we’re a family” or “take ownership of your work” bullshit, to say nothing of whatever the governmental equivalent is, probably the latest New And Improved™ formulation of “ask what you can do for your country”. Offering young white men the opportunity to forcibly dethrone long-toothed hostile geriatrics from their positions of status and power and wealth might move student mathematics performance. It’s worth a shot. What’s the worst thing that could happen that’s worse than what’s already happening?

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