This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
More public money syphoned off to the parasitic corporations and dumber, easier to exploit proles.
Seems like a massive win for capitalism, really.
Until it all blows up on our faces, obviously, but when has capitalism ever cared about anything beyond the next quarter?
So the plan worked
Yeah, the only thing missing from this article is that the title doesn't end with ", as intended."
it's not an accident. they didnt forget how to teach people. the people at the top got their and trashed the place on the way out. its by design.
That’s what the parasite pedofile class wants they want ignorant feudal serfs
by design, and when you combine that with AI and generations of people with low attention spans, you get something bad I'm guessing
The US public school was always about training you how to behave in a post industrial world. When you disguise a lying machine as an equal or even a divine source of knowledge, nobody will question when it says "there is nothing more to learn about the civil rights movement" or anything else the ruling class doesn't want you to learn.
"By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops..." oh I see the problem here...
generation less cognitively capable than their parents
Once I have read the same complaint in a source from 120 years ago, and there they even stated that every generation has thought that about their youth since very long ago....
Every generation worries about the new one, but they haven’t actually had cause in the past.
Nah, don't buy it. Paper does not produce smart people via some magic, screen does not produce dumb people via some magic. This works in a different, but fairly simple way
My theory is that it's because of everything else what's on the screen. Kids get laptops for school, get unrestricted access to internet because "it's for school", Youtube and Instragram do the rest.
<By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools.>
There's your problem right there, you bought computers which basically have no programs written for them.
Citing Program for International Student Assessment data taken from 15-year-olds across the world and other standardized tests, Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.
“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”
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Classroom technology usage has ballooned in recent years. A 2021 EdWeek Research Center poll of 846 teachers found 55% said they are spending one to four hours per day with educational tech. Another quarter reported using the digital tools five hours per day.
