Well, he promoted remote learning in 2021 to "earn its place" in schools.
Reality: absolutely everywhere, remote learning has been a shit-show which no one, not the parents, nor the kids, nor the teachers, wants to ever repeat.
All other predictions in 2021 were lame and obvious continuations of already-old trends. Easy to get those at least not totally wrong. The "remote learning" one was new, clearly influenced by the pandemic, and thus a risky one. And he pulled an epic fail on that one.
Internet comments are always so polarized... Some people liked remote learning, some didn't. I know some college profs who were glad to stay home in -20C weather. Others hated it even then.
It's true that remote teaching didn't take over the world, but I doubt people's appreciation of it had anything to do with it. It just wasn't a long enough event to change anything permanently.
Yeah, sure, if we had been forced to continue remote teaching for a few more years, we'd probably still do it. But that's not exactly the definition of "earn its place": if you do something just because the alternative that you'd rather like to do is not possible.
Also it is not just about taste. Practically all scientific work investigating the large scale home schooling efforts concluded that it was far less effective than normal schooling in practically every measure, including tangential purposes of schools besides teaching, such as providing social context and stabilization and mitigation of socioeconomic differences.
Reality: absolutely everywhere, remote learning has been a shit-show which no one, not the parents, nor the kids, nor the teachers, wants to ever repeat.
All other predictions in 2021 were lame and obvious continuations of already-old trends. Easy to get those at least not totally wrong. The "remote learning" one was new, clearly influenced by the pandemic, and thus a risky one. And he pulled an epic fail on that one.