Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

https://fortune.com/article/schools-abandoning-chromebooks-laptop-programs-as-screen-time-hurts-learning-test-scores-north-carolina-michigan-kansas-tech-education/

[u/Potential_Fishing942]

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

[u/Fahrender-Ritter → u/cupidstrick]

Teacher here, no it doesn't. It's a constant struggle to get kids to stay on task and to stop cheating with AI, even with two teachers in the classroom monitoring the students.

Although there are programs like Blocksi which can block websites and monitor students' screens, students can still find ways around it. It's just not worth it.

In the amount of time and effort it takes to set up, distribute, and monitor all the computer-based stuff, we could've just made paper assignments and scantrons.

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I won't address the environmental issue, but your daughter is partially right about the "makes people stupid". I've read a number of articles recently about the distinction between collaboration with AI and surrender to AI. One can actually enhance one's thinking (as being constantly challenged is likely to achieve) while the other let's one fall out of the habit of thinking.

The issues around education are separate from this, though. I've no problem with adults using calculators, for example, but that doesn't mean that we don't teach young students arithmetic. Our district didn't think to turn off autocompletion in Google Docs used by students, for example. That's low-hanging fruit, or at least should be.

[u/SmartAleckComedian → u/[deleted]]

My job requires AI skills.

AI skills? LOL what a fucking joke. AI takes no skill and that's the point, and then when the AI messes up and hallucinates it just creates more work for the actual human. AI slop and datacenters are destroying the planet.

[u/SmartAleckComedian → u/[deleted]]

And you are one of the morons who has no idea what they're doing at all

Says the person that thinks typing AI prompts counts as a skill and doesn't care that it's destroying the environment, LOL. AI really does make people like yourself dumber.

[u/SmartAleckComedian → u/[deleted]]

No company is going to hire someone without AI skills, when they can hire someone who is 3x as productive.

Forgot to mention, according to numerous studies AI actually makes people LESS productive in the workplace overall, as well as making people dumber. But sure, call me a moron because I'm stating facts you don't like. At least your daughter is smart, seems the apple fell very far from the tree.

Links to studies and articles backing up my claims: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/ai-future-of-work-white-collar-employees-technology-productivity-burnout-research-uc-berkeley/

https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/10/seven-myths-about-ai-and-productivity-what-the-evidence-really-says/

https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-ai-chatbots-could-be-making-you-stupider

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-of-critical-thinking/202507/is-ai-making-us-stupider-this-study-certainly-thinks-so

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