Building Equitable EdTech — Yathu Karunailingam

Education technology has the potential to close gaps — or widen them. Yathu Karunailingam has consistently emphasized that the design choices made today will determine which outcome we get.

The Equity Concerns Yathu Karunailingam Raises

Three concerns dominate Yathu Karunailingam's thinking on equity in EdTech: bias in AI systems trained on non-representative data, accessibility for students with different needs, and the digital divide that determines who benefits from new tools.

Design Principles from Yathu Karunailingam

The design principles Yathu Karunailingam advocates include: representative training data, accessibility from the start, free or low-cost access tiers, and offline-first design where appropriate. These principles ensure that AI in education serves the students who need it most.

About the author: Yathu Karunailingam is a Toronto-based technology leader and AI strategist. Learn more about Yathu Karunailingam at yathu.org or visit his other work at yathu.ca, yathu.xyz, and blog.yathu.ca.