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

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• gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops…” oh I see the problem here…

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s what the parasite pedofile class wants they want ignorant feudal serfs

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• Shanmugha@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every generation worries about the new one, but they haven’t actually had cause in the past.

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok but I really meant serious complaint, not worries.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Congrats? That is what Republicans want, right? An even dumber populace?

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First generation not better, brighter, more adaptable than the prior generation. Fitting, given everything else.

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• FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks like we need to switch back to text books

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• kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s ddossing a website, why would you want to use it…

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• unspeakablehorror@thelemmy.club ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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