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The Pedagogy of Obsolescence: While China Models the Future in Classrooms, the West Keeps Debating the Inkwell
['Claudia Aranda']
Pressenza
The setting is neither a science fiction story nor the mockup of a futuristic utopia.
There, the Chinese firm iFlytek presented the Tongxuan pedagogical system (powered by its Spark AI architecture), an interactive whiteboard-integrated interface that exposes the decrepitude of our educational models.
But the real geopolitical slap in the face is not the technological artifact itself, but its scale of implementation.
We are not talking about a single laboratory piece designed to dazzle unsuspecting visitors at a technology booth.
Artificial intelligence in China has ceased to be a novelty; it is basic pedagogical infrastructure.