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vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets. It has not paid off

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets. It has not paid off

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vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days ago
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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
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Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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    FSF already tackled this decades ago (https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-why.html#content). The ed-tech takeover of schools has been an effort not spearheaded by teachers and educators but by management and C-suites collaborating with each other.

    Now people don’t know how document typesetting works, all they know is Google Docs.

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