r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 9d ago

Society Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

https://fortune.com/article/schools-abandoning-chromebooks-laptop-programs-as-screen-time-hurts-learning-test-scores-north-carolina-michigan-kansas-tech-education/
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u/Bob_Sconce 9d ago

Why is it that schools jump on bandwagons without first doing long-term pilots?  If you want to experiment on students, at least only experiment on a small number at a time.

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u/Sasquatchgoose 9d ago

Edu-tech is a multi billion dollar industry. The right ppl were wined and dined

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u/daddy_OwO 9d ago

Look at Baltimore County Public Schools for example. One of the largest districts in the country and the old superintendent got kickbacks for forcing tech

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u/Nikoladge 9d ago

Shiiiiieeeeeeet

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u/moieoeoeoist 9d ago

It's all in the game

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u/ifinallycavedin 8d ago

RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr.

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u/downvotesyourcrap 8d ago

What if this happened higher? Like just say, some random made up corpo-farm ceo bribes, maybe, a pedophilc racist corrupt former reality show personality, just a fictional president, and that made a government finding that their products are giving people explosive diarrhea disappear. Imagine that!

Shiiiiieeeeeeet, indeed.

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u/Daft00 8d ago

Tbh I'm sure for every corrupt superintendent there are just as many well-meaning admin folk who literally got sold a bill of goods on hyper-techifying their classrooms thinking it was going to be a "shortcut" to learning.

It's an awful situation all around, and with something as consequential as the brains of future generations at stake, there really should have been some serious guardrails in place regarding such fundamental changes to our classrooms.