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Perhaps could compare similar data from countries that aren't destroying their school systems as effectively.
"The same decline appears outside the United States. Horvath told senators that across roughly 80 countries, academic performance drops after digital technology becomes widely embedded in classrooms. The timing alone raises serious questions about how learning environments affect cognitive development."
Doesn't say which 80 but 80 should be a broad swath
imo its the ipad parents and tik tok
maybe the microplastics get to all of us too. not like the older people took any tests
I was one of the last classes to graduate before everyone got school-issued laptops or tablets, back in 2015.
I'm kinda glad I didn't go to school or grow up doing everything on a computer. The retention and repetition just isn't there with me, or most others it seems. Like those typing courses in computer class that we did in elementary; I still type everything using my index fingers and almost nothing else.
But another part of me wishes I was more computer literate. All I really know how to do is plug stuff in and sign into my profile.
I learned to type with all my fingers playing online FPS. No time to look away when you have to press T and then type out team directions.
Headsets ruined the game for me, also because of all the morons shit talking each others’ moms the whole time.
I basically stopped playing online games entirely once voice chat became the norm, and then a full on expectation/requirement. I absolutely hate it.
Same here. Got into sim racing offline a little but mostly stopped, no interest in being yelled at by 13 year olds. Also got real jobs, life’s and a kid to raise.
But never bought a headset or the games that needed them.
Yeah I played video games, but not computer games. There was a year or two when I was in elementary when I would play nothing but GMod and I got pretty good.
Then I lost PC access at some point and didn't get another computer until I was 22.
The alternative to PC gaming was only a PS1 at the time. So PCs were really where the good games were exclusively at.
This was back in like 2003-2005. There were plenty of great console games that came out at that time and after.
I barely even used a laptop at all until college, and it took me a solid two years to realize that having a laptop in class was too distracting. I switched exclusively to hand written notes and my GPA went from barely holding onto a 3.0 to nearly straight As. By grad school I was competing for top 5 class rank in a top 10 engineering program. It's fucking nuts how much of a difference writing shit down by hand made in terms of my ability to retain information on first exposure.
Because asshole politicians are cutting education spenditure everywhere. At least in Hungary, they're doing it because "we told you, the thinking machine came, now go to a trade school".
Missed that while skimming. Thanks!
"After class, students returned to phones, tablets, and laptops, bouncing between social feeds and bite-sized explanations of material they never sat with for very long. Horvath described the outcome as students trained to skim. Skimming feels efficient, but it doesn’t build depth."