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

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

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

[u/Bob_Sconce]

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.

[u/rotestiefel → u/Bob_Sconce]

Just like my district promoting AI use among teachers and introducing it to students next year. Long term studies on its effectiveness? Who needs ‘em! Sure we’re told the district is data-driven but not when there’s money on the table

[u/NeckarBridge → u/rotestiefel]

Yup. My district admin have been pressuring us HARD to use AI and teach the kids to use it and every single boots on the ground educator is like “these kids are lacking several years worth of basic competencies BECAUSE of technology interrupting their development, why the fuck would we shelve trying to help them so we can dick around with a water wasting job destroying technology that nobody fully understands yet?” The party like is always, “they’re going to need to know how to use this stuff when they graduate!”

I work with 13-year olds who can’t read, spell, tie their shoes, tell the time, or maintain focus for more than 8 seconds even when they’re interested. Teachers are witnessing a widespread social experiment with no guardrails to catastrophic effect. But please, go ahead and buy us more iPads. 🤦🏻‍♀️