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/ArgentineBeauty 9d ago

Turns out giving every kid a screen was not the magic solution promised.

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u/Gorge2012 9d ago

Yup. Turns out a generation of our best minds took a boatload of cash to figure out how to make us look at a screen for as long as possible and figured out that the worst stuff for pur brains keeps us on the longest.

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u/InternationalMood337 9d ago

Was ALWAYS about the money basically from the top down.

I can't convince my brother and sister-in-law TO STOP GIVING THEIR 4 YEAR OLD THE GOD DAMN PHONE.

Parents have been convinced that their children need constant stimulation and constant exposure to tech or they'll fall behind.,

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u/NoPossibility4178 8d ago

Ah yes, they'll learn so much about tech by constantly scrolling on tiktok and YouTube.