What Kelsey Piper thinks about education

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Journalist writing on AI, effective altruism and global development; contributing writer at The Argument, previously a senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kelsey Piper has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 19 May 2026

   Our readingThe current approach of edtech companies making games with minor educational elements results in software that is hard to distinguish from casual games like Candy Crush.

   Their wordsIt's not just Prodigy, Oremus observed correctly; the entire premise of edtech companies like Gimkit or Blooket is making games with a minor educational element, with the ultimate result that "schools have embraced education software that has become hard to distinguish from Candy Crush."

   ↗Homework shouldn’t be all fun and gamestheargumentmag.com 1st of 3 in this piece