We teach our students core technologies but do not give them the vision to better the world. These are the values we need to instill in our engineering students — before they absorb the corruption of our investment banks and big business. I wanted to try an experiment: teaching students the potential of technology to solve big problems like clean water, energy, education, disease and hunger. A decade ago, it would have seemed wishful thinking to say that students could effect change on such a scale. And digital tutors can take students into virtual-reality worlds and teach them engineering, mathematics, language and world history.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2017 16:57 UTC