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Why Education Technology Doesn’t Exist. Over the last few years — seemingly bound up in the mix of post-Recession money flowing into new and different streams of the American economy, awareness of American students’ pitiful STEM preparedness, and a new breed of tech vision — updating legacy to digital on the one hand and the rise of educator/tech startup innovators on the other — this thing called EdTech supposedly has come into its own with teachers, students, incubators, and investors.
EdTech itself really isn’t so much about the product that we use to do the doing — it’s not so much about the lumber and nails — as it is about the doing itself. You can have the best looking lumber on the street and still wind up with a hideous barn. And you can have the most modest lumber on the street, and wind up with a work of art.