
By contrast, in the 1960s, pilots in the U.S. Navy faced a 23 percent chance of dying in an accident in any year (which does not include combat deaths and, at the time of the Vietnam War, these were quite high). Could you imagine a startup whose description for a job opening included that grim nugget? And beyond being willing to join, would you be delighted (as some were)?
The reaction I get is symptomatic of what the ed-tech debate has been reduced to. Since it is much easier to disagree with people if common ground is removed, the debate surrounding technology in schools has become predictably, depressingly binary. For evidence of this, you need only look at the Twitter rows resulting from a recent Organisation f…