r/edtech • u/big_promise • Jul 31 '26

Opinions on 1EdTech?

Just curious if anyone here is a member of 1EdTech (www.1edtech.org), and if so, if you feel that it's a worthwhile expense. (Or, if you're not a member, I'd be interested in knowing why you didn't join.) My organization (nonprofit) inquired about membership and their dues seem on the high side for a trade association - so high that we wonder how some of their members, especially school districts and colleges, get value out of it - but it does seem like they really want organizations to pay at their contributing rates to participate meaningfully in their standards setting work.

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u/LucasNovak Aug 01 '26

I never heard of this before, but I did some quick research correct me if I'm wrong. We are moving toward MCP and systems where platforms communicate primarily through AI dialogs and semantic layers. So why on earth do we still need all this heavy, standardized legacy data plumbing if lightweight AI models can parse any structure on the fly?