Hello, welcome to Roundtable, where we serve up piping hot debates on the issues that sizzle in China and beyond.
I'm Niu Honglin.
Back in the day, forget your homework meant you left a textbook at home.
Now, it means your app didn't sync, your password expired, or your AI assistant glitched.
Welcome to 21st century schooling, where even excuses are digitalized.
However, what happens when educational tech oversteps, collecting data without consent,
selling features to stressed out families, or replacing learning with automation?
How can we better regulate the digital classrooms?
For today's show, I'm joined by Yu Shun and Steve Hathorley.
Now grab your virtual compass and follow us to the heart of the discussion.
Parents are good at multitasking.
For my mom's generation, she used to juggle work, dinner, and keeping me company.
Now, parents are facing a new task, working with more than one app to help their kids learn.
One for homework, another for class updates, a third for online quizzes,
and a pop-up at urging them to unlock advanced features for their 9-year-old spelling test.
Multiply that by millions of families.
In the age of educational tech or ed tech, the digital classroom isn't just crowded, it's chaotic.
And now cities like Juhai are asking, should schools draw a line before screens take over learning?
So exactly what is happening in Juhai and how come we're having this conversation today?
Yeah,