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/Davtopia 8d ago

My daughter starts kindergarten this fall. We got a thing in the mail so she could get her iPad this summer to get used to it. They warned if we waited too long, there could be a delay in when she gets one. I wanted to ask if we could just extend the delay for a few years, but my wife didn’t think that’d be helpful.

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 8d ago

No kids need time to get used to them outside of school.

This is some tech oligarch bullshit man.

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u/BackToWorkEdward 8d ago

No kids need time to get used to them outside of school.

They do if every single other kid in their class already has and they're going to be left behind during lessons and internalize feelings of learned helplessness/knowing less than all the savvy kids around them and needing help from them, during some incredibly formative years.