Great argument for providing technology for all students...and most students now have access to smartphones-rich, poor, native or foreign doesn't matter access is ubiquitous.https://www.factfreaks.com/ Challenge every kid you know and every arithmetically challenged person to play and get out of the way.
People and schools who have access to iPads and chromebooks can thrive while those populations without access don’t.
I mean, I teach using a mastery approach at the university level - I’m all in. But I live in low income neighborhood and not everyone in the area has their own iPad or Chromebook or constant internet access described.
Hell, after a grocery store closed a couple years ago, we’re a “food dessert”
So yes, mastery learning is great. Technology is wonderful. We need to help the poor (… like please increase school funding!)
Universities are a peculiar place to talk about "equity".
Universities were originally created by motivated leaders whom are now generations gone. Their replacements became tax free corporations. This is accomplished by lying to young adults, crippling them with debt, and telling them its for their own good. Your institution and others like it is responsible for socioeconomic strife. They are the cause of a lack of equity. The political opinions they put out are just so - rhetoric to combat this fact so the lie can continue.
To illustrate the deep disconnect from reality; Outside of the top 0.1% of uni's - The research universities put out is already done by private R&D. With better standards, equipment, and teams of experts. It turns out that you have to have actually make money to make things happen. Universities don't do this because nobody is buying. Industry isn't interested, which signals that nobody else should be either. A degree is no longer much of a signal at all.
Increases in school school funding don't change the way math is taught nor many other things. I taught at one of he richest Universities in the world and saw up close what math anxiety does to people including my engineering students.
