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.”
I mean how much of that is the laptops, and how much if it is COVID fucking an entire school year? I am personally amenable to the idea that every school should just be a big faraday cage, but some of this test score decline is only showing up now despite the laptops being in use for a decade or more, which aligns much better with it being a delayed effect from COVID than of being a delayed effect from laptops.
Imo the bigger concern for COVID is the brain damage and other lasting symptoms caused by long COVID, which is now the most prevalent chronic illness in children.
I mean how much of that is the laptops, and how much if it is COVID fucking an entire school year? I am personally amenable to the idea that every school should just be a big faraday cage, but some of this test score decline is only showing up now despite the laptops being in use for a decade or more, which aligns much better with it being a delayed effect from COVID than of being a delayed effect from laptops.
Imo the bigger concern for COVID is the brain damage and other lasting symptoms caused by long COVID, which is now the most prevalent chronic illness in children.