Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Unfortunately even this will have to be another battle to wage as there in monied interest in shoving these shitty ipads and chromebooks down schools throats.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It feels like fiddling with the aesthetics of schooling rather than addressing the fundamentals. The idea that a computer terminal is bad for literacy doesn’t seem to match out with empirical evidence.
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Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text message abbreviations and school literacy outcomes
People make money coming and they make money going. I don’t think it is reasonable to say “profit exists, therefore problems”, as a lot of these prescriptions and changes are non-scientific and populist-driven at the outset. Whether they work or not isn’t really the goal. Political outsiders simply need to establish a scapegoat to pin on their incumbent opponents in order to sell their own ascendancy to office.
If you can campaign on undoing harm, cool. You’ll do it. But if you just need to throw darts and hope you hit something, blaming “the kids today and their computers” is as good a vector for attack as anything.
Not as though selling kids school supplies, hard cover textbooks, and other more traditional school trappings wasn’t profitable enough forty years ago.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Good thing nobody said that then.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago