
How Metaphors Shape Edtech
EdSurge Podcast
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What Do Castles Have to Do With Technology and Education?
Jeffrey Toobin: I lived by a castle in Wales, and it was built by the third Marquis of Butte back in the industrial age. He wanted to build a fairy tale castle that was like the romantic castles,. And so he built this thing on the site of an old castle that had been this, it's the 11th century. So my metaphor here after quite a nice long detour is that it's how I think Silicon Valley kind of new money, those kind of newly wealthy people are always trying to get into education. There's something appealing about it beyond just the kind of money that it offers.
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