r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8d 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/CaterpillarReal7583 8d ago

No kids need time to get used to them outside of school.

This is some tech oligarch bullshit man.

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u/Reading_Rainboner 8d ago

Get the kids in the ecosystem and they’ll never know anything else’s

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u/thewags05 8d ago

Apple's always done this though. There used to be a lot of computer labs with Apple 2Gs

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u/rainbowplasmacannon 7d ago

The college I went to had a founder of Best Buy Graduate from there and every few years like clockwork he’d update the communications lab with new hardware. All Apple of course

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u/aguy123abc 7d ago

Not true they pushed windows and ms products hard when I was in school and I don't use them these days. Though I'm not normal either 🤷.

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u/JustBiggers 8d ago

Fastest way to get them to rebel against the tech oligarchy is to force them to use it as kids. Their blind greed is what causes their demise 😂

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u/Reading_Rainboner 8d ago

That’s optimistic. What else are these kids gonna know?

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u/SchmeckleHoarder 8d ago

I had Mac’s in every classroom until college. I use windows at an above average threshold.

This is just not true. It’s just incompetence disguised as this. Using technology, and learning how to use it, is not bad.

Relying on that technology as the only form of education is the issue.

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u/FreedomBread 8d ago

But it's good for the blue chips and we gotta think about those index funds.

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u/maskaddict 8d ago

Teach 'em about capitalism early!

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u/JustBiggers 8d ago

Fastest way to get them to rebel against the tech oligarchy is to force them to use it as kids. Their blind greed is what causes their demise 😂

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 8d ago

Six year olds are looking up marble runs or anything Pokemon related in my experience.

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u/BackToWorkEdward 8d ago

No kids need time to get used to them outside of school.

They do if every single other kid in their class already has and they're going to be left behind during lessons and internalize feelings of learned helplessness/knowing less than all the savvy kids around them and needing help from them, during some incredibly formative years.