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> crime against our children. Sounds a bit hyperbolic. How are kids being hurt by Google specifically?

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• blackhaz 3y ago
  Take a read here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-021-00599-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-021-00599-4 Not specifically related to Google, but we are making our kids write less, which literally dumbs them down: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01810/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264763007_Handwriting_in_early_childhood_education_Current_research_and_future_implications https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264763007_Handwriti... (You can find lots of research on this, there's no controversy here.) Somewhat less of a profound problem is the extreme amount of pollution: https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-churn-report-highlights-problems-of-short-lived-laptops-in-schools/ https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-churn-report-hi... My kid has brought his third Chromebook in just a few years from school. We are all going to pay for all this, while the big tech generates billions of profits and the whole planet is marching towards tech feudalism.
  • jfoster 3y ago
    This case isn't about whether kids use keyboards or not. It's about whether they use Chromebooks.