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Why will Teachers and Conventional Learning Eventually Beat the EduTechs?
1. Overlooking different learner types
Many EduTech startups have focussed on easy learning, effective learning, making learning fun, personalized learning, B2B, digital learning, smart learning, and so on. Companies often overlook that there are different types of learners in a student population of 100.
(After completing this reading, you may look into the article on different types of learners).
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We all learn in different ways and multiple ways. Though the dominant learning trait remains the same, the sub-traits keep changing.
2. Overlooking the Emotional Aspect and focusing on only the information
Imagine reading these points on the first page itself. Can you care any less about what is being written here? Now your brain is parallel thinking about your own life experiences, perhaps about a great teacher you may have had in your childhood.
Technology doesn’t provide emotions to the student, and therefore the brain’s resistance remains high, so the brain learns rather forcefully and forgets much more quickly to never use the learning much. A good teacher looks into each of the students’ eyes during the class, explains in different ways, and uses different examples for different students.
A teacher could care less about what to teach and more about how much a student is learning, but technology companies care about what to teach rather than how relevant the learning is.
3. Learning is Social, and Technology is Anti-Social
Learning is one of the primal needs of humans. Whatever is primal is extremely emotional. We have hunted as a group and thus have learned as a group. We learn better in a classroom or when others are physically present with us because of a phenomenon called mirror neurons and physiological coupling. If multiple students are in a class, everyone’s hormonal profiles become the same, and their mental capacity aligns with the teacher. This mirror neuron is modulated by our social hormone Oxytocin.
Oxytocin doesn’t get released on social networking platforms such as Facebook. Zoom, google classroom, and other such environments have very little Oxytocin synthesis. Therefore technology can assist one in gathering information, but knowledge is hard.
Hence, what works best is group learning from a good teacher directly. No matter how many tabs and content you make, nothing replaces the effectiveness of putting a group of students with similar learning objectives together. They help each other, collaborate, compete with each other, and observe each other.
Tuition classes are successful because, after the class, students discuss, practice, and challenge each other. They exchange ideas and tricks.
That’s the reason why Engineering colleges, even with a pathetic system, keep producing decent talents.
A new learning method will be for one type of learner; others will hate it. Over six years, lone learners realize that new methods can improve skills but can’t be a replacement for the group.
So, colleges and tuition classes will exist.
Technology can, at best, provide information and provide some feelings, but when it comes to knowledge and learning, there was never, and won’t be ever, any replacement for teachers and their emotional bonding with the students.
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