Post by Noodle

For decades, edtech chased personalization. Meet every student where they are, customize the journey, optimize the outcome. The logic was sound. And yet outcomes barely moved. What kept getting missed: learning is social. Not as a nice-to-have. Neurologically, developmentally, evolutionarily — we are wired to learn with and from other people. No adaptive algorithm has cracked that. AI can make this worse, or it can make it better. Deployed the way edtech has deployed everything else, students spend more time alone with a chatbot and less time with each other and their faculty. More personalized. More isolated. Same outcomes. Noodle's John Katzman argues the better question isn't "how do we use AI in the classroom?" It's "how do we use AI to flank the classroom?" Make the prep before class more effective. Strengthen the practice after. So when students walk into the room, they're actually ready to engage with each other. Not replacing the communal experience. Strengthening everything around it. Read John's full piece on The EdUp Experience [link in comments]