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What a bizarre case. I’m a technology person and late Gen-X. The only tech in my school were lab computers and Ti-81/82 calculators, and I’ve been increasingly
by Spooky23 11mo ago
What a bizarre case. I’m a technology person and late Gen-X. The only tech in my school were lab computers and Ti-81/82 calculators, and I’ve been increasingly leery of the technology in schools since about 4th grade. Before that, they occasionally used iPads for a few things.
Now that my son is in 8th grade, the whole Chromebook phenomenon is something I find gross. Kids don’t read books. The various assessment products are gross and stress inducing, and the tools used for math, especially graphing, make trivial assignments incredibly difficult.
I hate to sound like an old man. But between worse educational products, corporate surveillance tools applied to children and cheap, hard to use devices, I miss books.
- tclancy 11mo agoYou are an old man: kids didn’t read books back when we were kids either. I did and you probably did, but that’s doesn’t mean most people did. And it doesn’t mean that kids aren’t curious or learning.
- WalterBright 11mo agoTechnology in the classroom has completely and utterly failed at improving education.
- hexbin010 11mo agoWas that really the aim? Or just getting kids hooked on tech and bowing to our tech overlords at a younger age?
- WalterBright 11mo agoI've seen many initiatives to "bring technology into the classroom". It always came with big promises. Lots of budget was allocated. No improvements.
- hexbin010 11mo agoOf course I was referring to the /real/ aim, not the well-publicised headlines and initiatives.