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Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Nah, don’t buy it. Paper does not produce smart people via some magic, screen does not produce dumb people via some magic. This works in a different, but fairly simple way

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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My theory is that it’s because of everyone else what’s on the screen. Kids get laptops for school, get unrestricted access to internet because “it’s for school”, Youtube and Instragram do the rest.

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- Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That (Youtube and Instagram etc. ) contributes, no doubt, but not a deciding factor. Way to check: is it possible to produce smart people from kids using electronic educational media without restrictions? May answer is “Yes, there is a way to do that” as in “no law of nature prevents this from happening”
  
  But education is veery fucked. Not just in US. For many decades, in many ways. And this is not going to be fixed with changing print books to laptops, vice versa or with any other superficial way of pretending to care. I wish enough people understood this
  
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