"The narrative of our field is very much a before-and-after Gen AI story." That's how this article starts, and how it's framed - though the interviewee, Reach Capital's Jennifer Carolan, is very firmly fixed on the traditional classroom environment. "I'd tell every edtech builder to become a substitute teacher. Shadow a teacher. Sit in a classroom for three days in a row—spoiler: it's boring and exhausting, and it isn't the teacher's fault, but the factory-like structure of it all." I don't think that ed tech ill succeed by solving the problems faces in the current classroom environment. Students - just like the startup founders being coached by Reach - should get out of the building. That's why the field isn't a before-and-after GenAI story. Not so long as the AI is intended to emulate a teacher
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