Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

They don't exist.

There's no real pattern going the other direction.

So why are these tools in schools?

The only other option has to be some sort of economic incentive.

They're not there for learning.

There is no evidence to prove they worked.

Imagine, and maybe that's the whole thing.

Like I always say, imagine I had a drug.

I invented a new drug and you say, what does that drug do?

And I go, why don't you give it to your kids and we'll find out.

Now imagine every government in the world says, that's a great idea.

Let's do it.

That's basically the ed tech model.

We think it will be good for them.

So let's give it a go.

So let's give it, let's do something.

highest level, you do a massive tech audit.

If you're a government, you put a kibosh, no more new ed tech for the next two years until we get a sense of what we've got, how much money we've spent, how it's working right now.

And what you'll find through that kind of in each school will have to do their own audit based on that.

But what you'll find is