Time after time, entrepreneurs claim tech will upend what they depict as stagnation in schools. Both parts of those claims usually miss the mark: Tech tools produce not revolution but evolution, in schools that are frequently changing anyway. Reich’s work emphasizes this alternate framework. “In the history of education technology, the two most common findings are, first, when teachers get new technology, they use it to do what they were already doing,” Reich says. “It takes quite a bit of time, practice, coaching, messing up, trying again, and iteration, to have new technologies lead to new and better practices.” The second finding, meanwhile, is that ed-tech tools are most readily adopted by the well-off.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/technology-schools-evolution-not-revolution-justin-reich-1006
