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Even if we DO decide to care about "efficiency" (many good arguments against this frame as mentioned in this post), all these simplistic "hours saved" hand-waving calculations usually still *aren't even measures of efficiency*!
Such an uphill battle talking about this in tech where people often cannot even IMAGINE the case where "good" doesn't equal "faster" or "less time"
This notion that we need to ask what teachers are able to DO with their time (not just say "let's shave time off teaching") is such a crystal clear point and one that is resonating across multiple worlds, from technology teams through classrooms, it doesn't surprise me at all as someone who's been a behavioral scientist in BOTH domains. "time savings" is always the bullshit way to talk about interventions
https://thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/the-sentence-that-im-very-tired-of
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