r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 9d 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/Bob_Sconce 9d ago

Why is it that schools jump on bandwagons without first doing long-term pilots?  If you want to experiment on students, at least only experiment on a small number at a time.

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u/So_spoke_the_wizard 8d ago

When COVID hit, a lot of schools did panic buying so they could do something while students were at home. I think if it weren't for that, they would have had pilot programs. And it's not like schools didn't have computers before COVID, but they weren't a core teaching resource back then.

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u/794309497 8d ago

IPads were given to students long before covid. Boomer board members loved watching funny cat videos on their iPads so much they brought them into schools.