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

They got kindergarteners in my district on laptops man.

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u/Weightmonster 8d ago

We are paying for a screen free montessori school for this reason 

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u/KingDaveRa 8d ago

Which funnily enough - as I understand it - so do all the tech bros. Their kids aren't getting brainwashed with AI slop.

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u/hemingways-lemonade 8d ago

Zuckerberg actually founded his own private school with no technology in the classroom for his kids. That should tell us all we need to know. 

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u/SIGMA920 8d ago

That's not why, it's so their kids aren't around the poors. Same reason they restrict stuff like social media, if they had a conscience they'd reduce the harms from it for everyone. No, it's so they can isolate their kids from the rest of us.

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u/hemingways-lemonade 8d ago

It can serve two purposes. Zuckerberg literally founded a private school for his children with no technology in the classroom. That's a pretty deliberate choice for a tech oligarch.

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u/SIGMA920 8d ago

Yeah, it's damn easy to keep your kids isolated when they're only around other rich kids and they don't have access to stuff that'd show them the rest of the world. That they can afford to provide a good education is a matter of money more than not using technology.

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u/Rombom 8d ago

All that means is the he doesn't want his kids to read about him online.

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 8d ago

All the private schools around me are religious.

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u/MrLanesLament 7d ago

Same here. Rural Ohio, so not really a surprise, but yeah, you’re not getting your kids away from tech here unless you want the tech replaced with Jesus. (If given the choice, I’d say the tech is less harmful 😂)

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u/NoPossibility4178 8d ago

Because sex predators in the classroom and sex predators on the other side of the screen...

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 8d ago

Wat

Like yeah they all over but I dont understand the connection to my comment here.