Technology

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

Correlation =/= causation. Somehow other countries did it right? So maybe it's just US thing

I suspect that if Gen Z designed their own cognitive tests, their tests would determine that we older generations were less cognitively capable than them.

The reality is that every generation adapts in different ways to fit their own cognitive circumstances, and one generation’s metric is at best an imperfect match for another—“cognitive capacity” can’t be objectively measured.

The problem isn’t keyboards it’s the policies and reasoning.

Meanwhile we’re integrating AI into classrooms. Surely nothing bad will come from that.

Probubbly cuz you gave the tools and didn't begin the process of using it for schools, dumbasses.

lol, I mostly ditched textbooks in high school not to support technology, but because I was tired of carrying around huge books in my backpack, the bulk of which I wouldn't even need on a daily basis. Lo and behold, even 14 years ago, I could find pdf versions of most of my textbooks, some of which were offered officially from the publisher for free via the school.

The problems are the enshittification of the internet, the attention economy and the superb lack of American educational system, not technology itself. Almost every university in the world is filled with the sounds of clacking keys from laptops, this isn't 1984.

I meana, sure. There's a cognitive decline when they get gunned down in their classrooms, or even just the perpetual stress of having to live with that threat on a daily basis.

Capable of what though? We have all the evidence we need that our parents and their parents are brain damaged. Maybe that kind of cognitive capability is bad and there's a goldilocks zone to go back to.

I'm sure the switch was a profit driven enterprise evey step of the way, so it worked perfectly, and additionally created more malleable servants.

The mistake was a bunch of people who learned how to use computers as adults thinking that the only way to learn how to use a computer is to do so from a young age, in non-vocational ways.

Doesn’t make sense, does it?

They really need to ban phones for students in grade school.

"But, they need them for safety!"

How the hell did we ever get along without every kid having an internet connected computer in their pocket since forever before they were invented? No, they don't need them for "safety".

It's a scam, y'all.

It angers me when people use the US as an example to aspire to. The US are so broken and fucked up, if they're doing something the default reaction should be to not do it because it's most likely some idiotic, fucked up thing. They are a negative example.

So the plan worked