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· The Global Education Technology Summit held in Bejing, China draws thousands of entrepreneurs and education leaders from 34 countries who seek to better understand the dynamic and fast-changing tech and education environment in China.
· What makes China's tech and education environment different? What can the US learn from China's tech and education advancements?
· Read more about China's fast-changing tech and education.
China is a different world when it comes to education and tech. Teachers are revered, most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning.
To try to better understand this dynamic and fast-changing environment, thousands of entrepreneurs and education leaders from 34 countries gathered here this week for the Global Education Technology Summit.
China had a reputation for copying technology from Silicon Valley, but these days the country has developed its own unique technology environment—what a new book by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, calls an “alternate internet universe.”
Read the full article about China's education and technology by Jeffrey R. Young at EdSurge.