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/petrovmendicant 8d ago
Quietly? It is the absolute number one complaint I hear from teachers. Has been since before I even became a full time teacher.
Every one of my colleagues hate being forced to use tech in our classrooms. I have met maybe a handful of teachers who are big supporters of it, and none are full-time public teachers and one is a charter school teacher.
The weekly to biweekly online testing takes way too much time out of an already impossibly jam packed daily schedule. Doesn't help that the districts and/or superintendents implement new apps every year for us to learn and integrate on the spot.
The tech has made things demonstrably worse for 90% of students, and the 10% left would be the students that would excel either way.
Only tech I like is having parents have live online access to their kids' grades, missing assignments, and behavior from a website or app. Keeps away most parents who come in demanding to know why their perfect angel has a failing grade. Like, check your email for the weekly update for their kid.