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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
Submitted 2 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a scam, y’all.
gergolippai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops…” oh I see the problem here…
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This, and not even ironically.
Something broken on the laptop? It’s so locked down nobody can do a damn thing about it, so I guess you’re just not participating today, Billy.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I suppose what’s needed is to look at data from other countries and see if the data is similar. They’ve found a correlation but, as anybody remotely versed in science should know, correlation does not imply causation
Alphonsus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re absolutely right. Looking at data from multiple countries would help show whether the pattern holds or if it’s just a local coincidence. Correlation can point us toward questions, but it’s never proof of causation on its own, that requires much deeper analysis.👌
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Our government is useless
UnrealisticVariable@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Our government is useless (for the poor)
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 months 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
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months 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.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months ago
generation less cognitively capable than their parents
Once I have read the same complaint in a source from 120 years ago, and there they even stated that every generation has thought that about their youth since very long ago…
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months ago
Ok but I really meant serious complaint, not worries.
sobchak@programming.dev 1 month ago
There are studies that show the tactile nature of books and hand written notes improves retention and encourages more thought, so it would seem likely that going more digital would have negative impacts on education.
Even that grifter Sam Altman was talking about how he takes notes a while back.
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve been hearing about this. And the software isn’t great, I hear stories of kids taking tests online and software glitches keep them from completing the tests. I love computers, but you know what always works? Pencil and paper.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Idk… I’ve had a few pretty shitty pencils.
evol@lemmy.today 1 month ago
People in my school literally failed PE, all you had to do was literally change your clothes. This is just people boogy manning tech so they feel smart. Fact is these kids will not be held back no matter what, and even if you hold them back they don’t care. They don’t see why they should bother learning in school, their parents don’t care about how they are doing in school. Passing American K-12 is essentially putting 4 brain cells of effort. We spend more money on education per capita then the rest of the world. Talk about class sizes, text books blah blah blah dosen’t matter when you have kids bullying teachers out of their jobs
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
More public money syphoned off to the parasitic corporations and dumber, easier to exploit proles.
Seems like a massive win for capitalism, really.
Until it all blows up on our faces, obviously, but when has capitalism ever cared about anything beyond the next quarter?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
Congrats? That is what Republicans want, right? An even dumber populace?
sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Citing Program for International Student Assessment data taken from 15-year-olds across the world and other standardized tests, Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.
“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”
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Classroom technology usage has ballooned in recent years. A 2021 EdWeek Research Center poll of 846 teachers found 55% said they are spending one to four hours per day with educational tech. Another quarter reported using the digital tools five hours per day.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
Problem is its a balance. kids need to learn without technology but they also have to learn to responsibly use technology. In addition they need to be prepared to learn remotely. I actually think that at least by high school but as early as possible it would be good for every student to learn from home once a week. They will then be prepared for something like another covid as well as the modern work world.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Schools are meant to teach kids how to think critically, along with basic facts.
Giving them laptops doesn’t teach that part unless you go out of your way for it.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
An entry level laptop pays for itself if you use it to get textbooks for free after a certain amount of time. The question is can you do it legally? Probably not. So where is the cost savings supposed to be?
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
most schools offer textbooks digitally anyways. I never once was reprimanded for using pirated textbooks. If anything, teachers are just happy to know a student cares enough to learn. It’s really the crooked publishers that are far to greedy to serve any educational purpose that profit from copyright enforcement.
Zephorah@discuss.online 2 months ago
First generation not better, brighter, more adaptable than the prior generation. Fitting, given everything else.
YetiMindtrick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Surely more blame for dumber kids falls on the Republican push to remove actual science from textbooks, than the format in which they are delivered.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 month ago
<By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools.>
There’s your problem right there, you bought computers which basically have no programs written for them.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Looks like we need to switch back to text books
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 months ago
You provided links to the Web Archive and to GhostArchive, but not to archive.today
I am curious: is this after you have learned of Wikipedia’s decision to ditch it, since it’s been proven to alter the content of the archived pages?
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s ddossing a website, why would you want to use it…
unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Well hopefully those planning curriculums learn from this. Until then, computers at school and books at home. Turning luddite home schooling is not gonna help
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So the plan worked
III@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, the only thing missing from this article is that the title doesn’t end with “, as intended.”