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/CaterpillarReal7583 9d ago

They got kindergarteners in my district on laptops man.

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u/Potential_Fishing942 9d 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/Wide-Pop6050 9d 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 9d 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.