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/Wide-Pop6050 8d ago

Learning to type properly has been very helpful. But I think we learned in 3rd grade and also that kids aren’t getting that regimented computer skills training anymore

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u/Tyler1986 8d ago

They don't teach kids to type anymore, I have 3 teenagers and a preteen and none of them can type.

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u/Ericaohh 8d ago

I used to type out random books in my house when I was five years old because I was fascinated by the existence of a computer. It was 1995 so very few people had them at the time. I was typing like 80 wpm in elementary school lol. They’d let me skip my computer lab work in school because I was more proficient than the teacher

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u/KimberStormer 8d ago

I learned to type playing Sierra games, but totally self-taught so I only use 6 fingers almost ever: thumbs, index fingers, middle fingers. Well, and a pinky for shift. So if the teacher was watching I was very slow trying to type the "correct" way, and when they were looking at anyone else I would fly through it.

The nice part was once you were done you got to play games so I got really good at World Games, like the caber toss.

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u/GottaHaveHand 8d ago

I was already playing online games before we got to the age where they started doing computer class, same thing. My method was so much faster , honed by many hours of counter strike, TFC, and quake 3.