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I enjoyed rock music, cable TV, videogames and the internet as a kid, but they weren't present in my school classrooms.

• out-of-ideas 2y ago
  exactly - they didnt interrupt the classes/studends; and ones that tried to have ear-buds in were caught and told no. even at university some classes were "laptopless" which was striking to me. at a uni an individual "wants" to go and learn - and therefore should hopefully be able to control how they learn (albeit some folks could distract others with non-coursework videos playing). the challenge now is the younger generations bring laptops/phones into class and works with them daily as part of their toolset (at least the laptop part) might be great idea to learn off a laptop, but there will be consequences; reminds me of the drafting classes i took: drafting on a sheet with paper/pencil the kids messed around significantly less than when in front of computers when using autocad i can see it being more difficult of a problem now though, and i would think that all except a few classes should be device-less; esp for younger generation where they likely dont yet know about how they learn themselves - but im no expert. id gamble there are many parents out there that let their younger-and-younger kids do anything on a phone/pc without oversight. too many people think having a 'phone' is a safty feature and cannot live without it - personally im delighted to not have mine constantly attached to me
• chasing 2y ago
  All four of those things were present in my classroom experience, and I’m an 80s-90s kid. They were just in their proper place. I’m obviously not advocating for kids just totally tuning out and fucking with their phones all day.