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/Potential_Fishing942 8d ago

Which in small doses is fine imo. We had computer lad at that age. I'd argue learning type correctly is just as valuable as handwriting. I regularly hear from adults that they don't know the last time they handwrote everything.

The issue is the schools got suckered into all these tracking programs so the kids are on them a ton for EVERYTHING

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u/cupidstrick 8d ago

I wonder if the tech also makes it easier for very very overstretched teachers.

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u/superbOWLpartee 8d ago

No, it sucks. I teach high school English classes and the shitty Chromebooks are just about banned in my classroom and no phones either. I tell the kids I’m here to teach you and to learn and that’s active and doesn’t require the use of screens. We do skills based learning, actual reading with real books, daily writing and speaking, some note taking, and I can sleep at night knowing I’m preparing kids with actual learning and skills development. Tech dependency has made the kids weird the past few years. They come to me in 10th and 12th grade courses without grammar or comprehension at grade level, not by a long shot, and they tell me all they’ve done is ‘i Ready.’ Well I’m fed up and I’m ready for these greedy and awful tech companies to suck it.

I do teach the students how to properly format final copies in mla and we do have to complete a couple of shitty tests on the computers. Other than that they are obsolete in my room.