A Manifesto for both More and Less Technology in Schools (Daisy Christodoulou)

Daisy Christodoulou is the Director of Education at No More Marking, a British firm that provides online software for schools such as “Comparative Judgement,” a tool to assess essays. Before joining No More Marking, Christodoulou was Head of Assessment at Ark Schools in the United Kingdom. Prior to that position, she was a secondary English teacher in London. This article originally appeared under the title: “Motorways with No Speed Limits and Car-Free Town Centres” in Substack, May 24, 2026. Germany has motorways with no speed limits. It also has medieval town centres where cars are banned. So is Germany a pro-car or an anti-car society? Do people love cars or hate them? Is Germany’s attitude to cars libertarian or authoritarian? Obviously, the context matters. In some contexts, cars are the solution to a problem. In other cases, cars are the problem. In my 2020 book Teachers vs Tech, I made a similar argument about education technology. I thought that ed tech was indispensable in…