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This week we’re quoting Amy Peck (Founder and CEO at Endeavour XR)

What Peck said:

“...imagine immersive worlds of learning where children from all over the world could learn together, explore the past, and build an understanding of other global cultures.”

With tech, learning can transport you into different realms

Just in case you happened to share our obsession with Dr. Seuss when you were a child, something he wrote…

“The more you learn, the more places you shall go.”

…feels brilliantly relevant here. But now, children don’t have to learn first and then go somewhere: you can be transported into new dimensions by the learning experience itself.

The full potential of EdTech has yet to be realised, but it’s already enabling things like:

• Bringing historical artefacts to life. Through a partnership between Cappasity and the Eisenhower Foundation, IKEducation has been able to develop its Primary Source Library – which showcases artefacts in 3D.
  
  The library has given thousands of young people the chance to learn about history not just by reading or hearing about artefacts, but by actually interacting with them: zooming in on different areas, spinning them around, and closely examining their most intriguing details. The most powerful thing about this is that it allows children to build a personal connection to artefacts that would otherwise be boring and hard to remember.
  
• Making self-learning an actually enjoyable experience. In the past, self-learning has often been dismissed as ineffective and boring. But with increasingly sophisticated EdTech and the integration of AI, that’s changing.
  
  One 2021 survey by Erin Duffin found that 41% of US graduate students preferred their online college-level classes to being in the physical classroom. And platforms like Thinkster are helping to make remote learning more tailored and supportive – using AI to identify areas of mathematics learning that a student is struggling with, and tweaking their curriculum in real time.
  
• Bitesize, gamified learning. You’ve probably heard of Duolingo. Well, it hasn’t become popular in a vacuum: fun digital learning experiences that feel like games are part of a boom in nanolearning tech. With highly curated, psychologically primed content, an entire educational module can last as little as two minutes – and gaming elements give you a dopamine hit that helps you remember the content.

Learning is a lifelong endeavour

As technology continues to evolve, learning isn’t just something you do – it’s becoming a state of mind that’s necessary to be successful in global society.

Peck said, “As the jobs of the future emerge, we all need to become lifelong learners. Immersive technology will help individuals level-up into the new roles being created by the tsunami of automation and technology.”

We’ll make that commitment right now: we pledge to keep learning for the rest of our lives. Are you with us?

This week we’re also quoting Tim Draper (Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Founder of Draper Associates)

What Draper said:

“...the great entrepreneurs, when they hear that question, they lean forward in their seats and they say because I worked with this company before and they didn’t get it, they didn’t understand, and now I’m going to show the entire world how awesome this can be.”

What question?

Why?

That’s it. That’s the question. Why this business? Why this idea?

And the why will help us keep learning.

When it comes to learning – and continuing to learn for the rest of our lives – Why? is the most important question.

As well as being the question that Draper recognises as the giveaway of a great entrepreneur, it’s also the one question that will keep you on track on a lifelong learning journey. Which makes sense – because the entrepreneurs we know are learning, growing, and adapting to the world around them all the time.

So let’s never stop asking why.

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Richard McKeon
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