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vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 天前

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 · 1 天前
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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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    The really “cool” thing about the Chromebooks is that it isn’t even teaching them how to use a real computer as a byproduct, because ChromeOS abstracts away and hides all the actual workings of the computer.

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      also, Google says it helps “get that loyalty early, and potentially for life”:

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Imagine a world where...
Parents ask their children "Why aren't you watching more YouTube?"
Children from small villages can become engineers and doctors
Teachers can uplevel their classroom by curating the best videos against their syllabus
School Administrators shift budgets from Textbooks to YouTube subscriptions
Google Confidential and Proprietary

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      Never even considered that but you’re right. Wtf else uses chrome OS

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        The user doesn’t even get to see the real filesystem.

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