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Stephen Downes

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Something to keep in mind when anguishing over the state of digital education: "The genie is out of the bottle with regards to working online, and it is unlikely it will go back in." The question isn't whether there will be edtech, but rather, how best to make it work. What are our objectives, and what are our methods? If we just shrug our shoulders and wash our hands of it, what will it become? "It is important to ensure students' online learning experience matches, or surpasses, what they would receive in a classroom. AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning is one way to do this, and the approach is recommended by industry." Got a better plan? Let's hear it. Relying on paper texts and teachers in the classroom won't cut it any more (and we should stop pretending there was a golden age of fair, equitable, inclusive and responsible education some time in the past - there wasn't).

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