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"The kids are so smart they figured out this computer stuff I could never" - 75 yo Deborah, School District Superintendent
No Deborah, the kids had a mandatory computer literacy class which helped them understand the fundamentals of computing.
Key word "had"
We should be investing in teachers not technology.
Teachers are paid a pittance in the US. Shows our values as a society. They’re educating the next generations, but that doesn’t make number go up right this second, so they are compensated accordingly.
Yeah, the systemic tearing down of public education definitely had an effect as well.
It's more than just lack of effort here though, it's systematic pollution they are allowing into our food and water with abandon.
into education too, into everything they can actually
The problem isn’t keyboards it’s the policies and reasoning.
Probubbly cuz you gave the tools and didn't begin the process of using it for schools, dumbasses.
Our government is useless
Our government is useless (for the poor)
Public money gets funneled to the tech bros and the population gets dumber. It's a conservative win-win.
And the begining of civil distruction
It’s so sad that we love shitting in younger generations and we love making things harder for them. This isn’t a new concept btw. Americas been doing that for generations
It's a scam, y'all.
by design, and when you combine that with AI and generations of people with low attention spans, you get something bad I'm guessing
Also the underfunding of teachers and overall mismanagement in persuit of profits.
The problem isn't the technology, but the implementation.
The USA should have had a national digital textbook initiative, where free textbooks are developed and digitally distributed to all schools of every educational level. Each textbook can have modules and problem generators, designed to make it easy for teachers to assemble a custom curriculum for their class, to assign problems, and to quickly have generic quizzes graded.
The biggest problem with such a program would be things like essays, culture, and history, since many bad actors would want to press their beliefs onto students. Still, things like dates, locations, and people involved with events can be standardized. Maybe teachers can rate educational modules, to help keep bad material from being adopted by most teachers?
I'm just not convinced that the technology isn't part of the problem. All of these machines are designed to give a you a dopamine rush when you use them. I think they have a real and detrimental effect on attention span.
Each textbook can have modules and problem generators, designed to make it easy for teachers to assemble a custom curriculum for their class, to assign problems, and to quickly have generic quizzes graded.
Having worked for three separate companies trying to do just that, it’s not that the technology doesn’t exist. It’s that it’s too expensive for individuals to purchase and school districts had a hard time getting contracts approved due to NCLB and constant budget cuts. Strange though that a company like Google could ink a huge deal with an entire state even though none of the shit did anything it promised.
Google got exactly what they wanted out of it though. Get 'em young using and feeling comfortable with Google hardware and software, and trapped in the walled garden early. Most are not likely to change to another brand/OS later in life.
Oh trust me I know. They make big promises, and sell these devices dirt cheap to state education systems, and frame it as an altruistic, benevolent act. Meanwhile you can’t install any other software on them and it’s entirely locked into using google’s “education” software
Also where are the “think of the children” folks that are putting in the age verification laws. Shouldn’t they be concerned that a marketing agency built to profile individuals is privy to everything your kids do at school?
Privacy is too woke
The biggest problem to getting open source textbooks,, is McGraw Hill and their ilk, the few companies that control the textbook Rackets.
I'm sure the systemic defunding and dismantling of the public education system across the United States at the hands of Republican lawmakers over the same timeframe has absolutely nothing to do with it.
How does systemic defunding lead to schools buying up tablets and notebooks?
This seems more like straight up corruption to me, or dumb administrators believing the nonsense Google sells them about Chromebooks being better for learning or whatever
Right? It always confounds and amazes me when people discount this simple fact.
Education has been fucked over so hard in this country, repeatedly. They want people dumb.
In this instance, I'd say it doesn't.
The lockdown from COVID stunted a lot of development. Then the tablets and just that kids are always on a screen drive it home. That and kids and parents don't care as much about failing grades, and the "no child left behind" has gotten about as corrupt and lazy as our government. Now it just means "your kids going to the next grade, regardless"
Correlation =/= causation. Somehow other countries did it right? So maybe it's just US thing
No it isn’t. Finland did the same thing and now our schools are fucked up.
No, what's messed up education in Finland is that it's much, much harder now to fail and hold back a student. The semi-equivalent of the USA's No Child Left Behind policy.
Schools here in Finland still use plenty of books, and at least they still teach how to use computers, like typing lessons, unlike the USA.
Here in Masala they even started teaching classes about detecting AI use, it's usage in propaganda, and privacy on the internet plus usage of AdBlockers in elementary school. My wife gave the lessons - though she changed it up on the second one after seeing that kids don't really care about this stuff much unless framed differently, like "you can watch YouTube without ads" rather than "it's your legal right to not have ads as children" and "Linux has many many free games" for example.
Why do you think other countries did it right? Does the article say that kids in other countries are smarter?
Meanwhile we’re integrating AI into classrooms. Surely nothing bad will come from that.
I completely blame ChromeOS.
Even on AD snafu'd windows, the first thing we all did was figure out how to bypass any block and do what we wanted to.
Kids are growing up not knowing there are things you can do aside from accessing the internet and loading crappy webpages.
I came here to say something similar. It's not merely tech that's to blame but the kind of tech we have today. Kids are being raised to be consumers of tech and tech services. They don't have basic fundamentals that millenials had to learn to access porn on dialup.
it's not an accident. they didnt forget how to teach people. the people at the top got their and trashed the place on the way out. its by design.
