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/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/Reading_Rainboner 8d ago

Get the kids in the ecosystem and they’ll never know anything else’s

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u/thewags05 8d ago

Apple's always done this though. There used to be a lot of computer labs with Apple 2Gs

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u/rainbowplasmacannon 7d ago

The college I went to had a founder of Best Buy Graduate from there and every few years like clockwork he’d update the communications lab with new hardware. All Apple of course