What if “Geeks can’t teach, and teachers can’t geek?”

Edtech or “education technology," is the amalgamation of IT tools and educational practices aimed at facilitating and enhancing learning. It encompasses simple use of computers to online homework, informal mobile learning applications, gamification or virtual reality techniques.

Still in the nascent stage, it shows promise as a method of customizing a curriculum according to a student’s ability and his level of understanding by introducing and reinforcing new content at a pace the student is able to cope and manage. Although potential for scaleable individualized learning played an important role in edtech's ascendance, Covid-19 necessitated and fast-tracked its adoption as an urgency.

It has the potential to create efficiencies, cost-cutting, standardization besides making learning accessible at any point of time and even to the far-flung areas that have never seen the light of development. In this way, it is destined to transform the future of how education is sourced, imparted and consumed.

As per the World Economic Forum, “the integration of information technology in education will be further accelerated and that online education will eventually become an integral component of school education.”

Therefore, a simple reply to Why Edtech? should be that because “Geeks can’t teach, and teachers can’t geek.”

Shadan Khan

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