Learn to Start Technology

Technology inside of education must always be a tool instead of the core of the solution. When technology is treated as a tool, it’s used with nuance, with pedagogy, and is tested appropriate to student outcomes. When technology is the solution, inefficiencies are more accepted, lack of relevance isn’t questioned, and purpose isn’t differentiated. Solutions to problems inside of education can be solved with the help of technology only when that technology is treated as one tool inside of a comprehensive solution that is founded on relevance and relationships.

At Learn to Start, we built an interconnected technology infrastructure to support the curricular answer we created as our solution to human development reimagined. Technology is an extension of the solution, not the core of it. The curriculum connects students to their interests, so the technology was built to increase that connection. The curriculum guides students in the development of employability skills, so the technology was built to prove that development. The curriculum provides students with experiential learning tasks, so the technology was built to bridge the gap to their next experience outside of education.

Technology is fundamental to innovation, to learning, to development inside of education, but it needs an infrastructure of context and pedagogy to build tools that can span the student’s entire experience and produce outcomes that follow students past graduation. When you think of a classroom, is it separated into distinct components or is it one holistic system?