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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents (fortune.com)
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[โ€“] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 97 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The kids are so smart they figured out this computer stuff I could never" - 75 yo Deborah, School District Superintendent

No Deborah, the kids had a mandatory computer literacy class which helped them understand the fundamentals of computing.

Key word "had"

[โ€“] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Back in the 00's when I was secondary school. My friends and I, would turn off the firewall, and bypass the website restrictions. This is just so we could download and play runescape, but I also played the halo combat evovled demo. It was only my group of friends who figured out how. We never shared the simple method with anyone, because we didn't want it getting patched.