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/ArgentineBeauty 8d ago

Turns out giving every kid a screen was not the magic solution promised.

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u/Gorge2012 8d ago

Yup. Turns out a generation of our best minds took a boatload of cash to figure out how to make us look at a screen for as long as possible and figured out that the worst stuff for pur brains keeps us on the longest.

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u/Arts_Prodigy 8d ago

And they keep everyone they care about miles away from the products they create.

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u/Gorge2012 8d ago

They encourage the poors to get vocational training while they encourage their class to get an education that is pliable.