From sumitsrisumit at gmail.com Sat Jun 7 19:13:37 2025 From: sumitsrisumit at gmail.com (Sumit Srivastava) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 04:43:37 +0530 Subject: [IAEP] once in a generation something happens Message-ID: there was a time when everything changed in education: writing on clay tablets was invented in ancient mesopotamia (3rd millennium bce). then we had another major change: the printing press was invented. it made access to knowledge available to the masses at little cost. a few centuries later, we invented personal computers. whoa! alan kay, seymour papert, cynthia solomon, and many more thought there was something big there. this was the birth of the idea of using personal computers for learning. a few decades later, internet happened. walter, claudia, and a lot of other people helped the people of the world use the internet to get people to learn using the internet and computers. there's something new happening in artificial intelligence. we have a new thing that can create new possibilities. austen allred, founder of a prominent ed tech startup and someone i interviewed a few years ago, says that schooling is changing and we might see more ai than teachers to help students learn. [1] [2] this could be something we could build on top of. we don't have the bandwidth, true. but if we don't go out of our way to build something that could be pivotal in the next leap of technology, we might miss out on the chance to be the greatest educational organisation of the next decade. i see a future where something that was built and open sourced at sugar labs goes on to be the go-to thing for students and teachers around the world, used by billions of students around the world every month. for that i ask for 20% of your time out of whatever you are already doing at sugar labs. [1] https://x.com/Austen/status/1930865224292168167 [2] https://2hourlearning.com/ thanks, sumit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: