It is most definitely harder, but you learn! (Thanks for reminding me to post this, Dan)
Update (5/28/10): Game Set Watch talks about the origin of this edition.
It turns out that the educational game came at the request of Charles Watson, who runs a computer project dedicated to providing computers with low power consumption parts to schools in developing counties. Dealing with students, he noticed that many of them enjoyed Flash games, but most of those games were violent and generally devoid of any educational content.
05/27/10 7:15 AM
This is much much easier than normal Canabalt.