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Ed-Tech Debates Miss Education's Purpose
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The intense focus on ed-tech's efficiency and scalability is a distraction from the fundamental, unanswered question of what education is for. This perspective argues that by prioritizing the "means" of technology, the educational community has forgotten to define the "ends" or ultimate purpose of learning.
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FRAMINGS
- · means vs. ends
- · what is education for?
- · forgetting the purpose
- · technological society
PATTERNS
- · what is education for
- · means
- · ends
- · purpose
- · more important than the ends
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