But making the best of edtech means getting several things right.

但是，要最有效地利用教育技术，就要做好以下几件事情。

The head of Imperials EdTech Lab says this presents a window to the world.

帝国理工实验室的负责人说，这是一个向世界展示的窗口。

But another is that the brain-stretching potential of edtech has remained unproven.

但还有一个原因是教育技术提升才智的潜力尚未得到证实。

The second imperative is to make sure that edtech narrows, rather than widens, inequalities in education.

第二个必行之举是确保教育技术会缩小而不是扩大教育不平等。

What matters is how edtech is used.

关键在于如何使用教育技术。

To succeed, edtech must be at the service of teaching, not the other way around.

教育技术要成功，必须要服务于教学，而不是支配教学。

The other way edtech can aid learning is by making schools more productive.

教育技术辅助学习的另一个途径是让学校教育变得更有成效。

In studies of edtech in India by J-PAL, a research group, the biggest beneficiaries are children using software to receive remedial education.

研究机构J-PAL在印度开展的针对教育技术的研究发现，教育技术最大的受益者是利用软件接受补习的儿童。

But to grow the business, GPTZERO is making deals with enterprise users, like edtech companies, including the maker of learning management system Canvas.

但为了发展业务，GPTZERO 正在与企业用户达成协议，比如教育科技公司，包括学习管理系统 Canvas 的制造商。

Since then education technology (edtech) has repeated the cycle of hype and flop, even as computers have reshaped almost every other part of life.

此后，教育技术就一直在重复这种从大热到沉寂的循环，尽管与此同时电脑已经几乎重塑了生活所有其他方面。

These kinds of deals with edtech companies are a sign that schools, whether they hate generative AI or embrace it, know they can't ignore it.

这些与教育科技公司的交易表明，无论学校是讨厌生成人工智能还是接受它，它们都知道自己不能忽视它。

This could help hundreds of millions of children stuck in dismal classes—but only if edtech boosters can resist the temptation to revive harmful ideas about how children learn.

这能帮助到被困在沉闷课堂中的亿万孩子，但前提是教育技术的推动者能够抵挡住诱惑，不让那些有关儿童如何学习的有害见解卷土重来。