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there's been pushback and talk of going to chromebooks There's been talk of the education market going to Chromebooks? Did we just fall into a wormhole to 201

there's been pushback and talk of going to chromebooks There's been talk of the education market going to Chromebooks? Did we just fall into a wormhole to 2014?

ProllyInfamous 8mo ago
Can we bring computer labs back into education, instead of K-12 all having their own laptops?!? Why does a primary schooler need to "access an online assignment portal" to turn in his assignment?!? You can make a good argument (perhaps) for high schoolers having access to personal laptops, but this shouldn't be allowed on the whim of all classroom hours. We are failing our next generation, massively — it's already washing out in Gen Alpha's testscores/employability. ---- background: attended college on a teaching scholarship, twenty years ago; immediately left heartbreak of education, breaking repayment contract, to attend grad school; still jaded from that uncredentialed five-figure expense
- cwoolfe 8mo ago
  yes. I think EdTech can be helpful for learning; but having immediate access to the rest of the internet at the same time negated whatever benefit EdTech would have had. I think that's why all the data from the EdTech companies shows a benefit in controlled studies of just their product, but the rest of our overall academic achievement data shows a net decline ever since portable screens were introduced into life and education.
  - ProllyInfamous 8mo ago
    Most of my peers/brothers met their wives IRL, pre-Tinder. They only realize how bad portable screens have become watching their/others' children fumble through normal developmental milestones. Across the age spectrum I've challenged many to just not use their phone for one day [0] — and this often provokes intense defensiveness/anxiety. I'm personally back exploring new working jurisdictions, and the criteria of "Right to Disconnect" is a major influencer (i.e. cannot contact me during non-work hours). [0] as a cellphone-less fortysomething
cwoolfe 8mo ago
To clarify: Talk of going from iPads to Chromebooks. Because kids view the iPads as a toy to play games on.
- deleted 8mo ago
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there's been pushback and talk of going to chromebooks There's been talk of the education market going to Chromebooks? Did we just fall into a wormhole to 2014?

ProllyInfamous 8mo ago

Can we bring computer labs back into education, instead of K-12 all having their own laptops?!? Why does a primary schooler need to "access an online assignment portal" to turn in his assignment?!? You can make a good argument (perhaps) for high schoolers having access to personal laptops, but this shouldn't be allowed on the whim of all classroom hours. We are failing our next generation, massively — it's already washing out in Gen Alpha's testscores/employability. ---- background: attended college on a teaching scholarship, twenty years ago; immediately left heartbreak of education, breaking repayment contract, to attend grad school; still jaded from that uncredentialed five-figure expense

cwoolfe 8mo ago
yes. I think EdTech can be helpful for learning; but having immediate access to the rest of the internet at the same time negated whatever benefit EdTech would have had. I think that's why all the data from the EdTech companies shows a benefit in controlled studies of just their product, but the rest of our overall academic achievement data shows a net decline ever since portable screens were introduced into life and education.
- ProllyInfamous 8mo ago
  Most of my peers/brothers met their wives IRL, pre-Tinder. They only realize how bad portable screens have become watching their/others' children fumble through normal developmental milestones. Across the age spectrum I've challenged many to just not use their phone for one day [0] — and this often provokes intense defensiveness/anxiety. I'm personally back exploring new working jurisdictions, and the criteria of "Right to Disconnect" is a major influencer (i.e. cannot contact me during non-work hours). [0] as a cellphone-less fortysomething

cwoolfe 8mo ago

To clarify: Talk of going from iPads to Chromebooks. Because kids view the iPads as a toy to play games on.

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