This covid jolt has brought us to the new era of online education. The edtech sector is brimming with old players bet bigger stakes to scale the globe and new players hedge funding their resources into the pool.
If a platform is fun for kids but doesn’t take into account the mental health of the kid, should we break the digital divide and dive our kids in the pool. Or wait for these freshly minted edtech companies to deliver a fully functional system that doesn’t compromise on the human experience for kids.
The lack of expertise in the edtech sector will finally force the children inside classrooms once the pandemic is over. Or will the edtech giants wake up and invent something to question the status quo and scale a futuristic model which pans out after the pandemic…