Could students rely solely on EdTech to educate themselves?

The UN reports that in the last few centuries, there has been an unprecedented transformation in human education and learning: a change from only a minority of global elites being literate to the vast majority. Today’s younger generations are more literate than older generations — a trend that is consistent across all countries. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” -Benjamin Franklin In our modern computing age, it would seem easy to assume that students could rely solely on technology to learn and educate themselves. So why do teachers matter? This is actually a very complex question and