Technology

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.

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.

That’s what the parasite pedofile class wants they want ignorant feudal serfs

So the plan worked

It's a scam, y'all.

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.

I've been hearing about this. And the software isn't great, I hear stories of kids taking tests online and software glitches keep them from completing the tests. I love computers, but you know what always works? Pencil and paper.

by design, and when you combine that with AI and generations of people with low attention spans, you get something bad I'm guessing

Our government is useless

I suppose what’s needed is to look at data from other countries and see if the data is similar. They’ve found a correlation but, as anybody remotely versed in science should know, correlation does not imply causation

generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Once I have read the same complaint in a source from 120 years ago, and there they even stated that every generation has thought that about their youth since very long ago....

There are studies that show the tactile nature of books and hand written notes improves retention and encourages more thought, so it would seem likely that going more digital would have negative impacts on education.

Even that grifter Sam Altman was talking about how he takes notes a while back.

More public money syphoned off to the parasitic corporations and dumber, easier to exploit proles.

Seems like a massive win for capitalism, really.

Until it all blows up on our faces, obviously, but when has capitalism ever cared about anything beyond the next quarter?

Citing Program for International Student Assessment data taken from 15-year-olds across the world and other standardized tests, Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores. He blamed students having unfettered access to technology that atrophied rather than bolstered learning capabilities. The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.

“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”

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Classroom technology usage has ballooned in recent years. A 2021 EdWeek Research Center poll of 846 teachers found 55% said they are spending one to four hours per day with educational tech. Another quarter reported using the digital tools five hours per day.

"By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops..." oh I see the problem here...

Nah, don't buy it. Paper does not produce smart people via some magic, screen does not produce dumb people via some magic. This works in a different, but fairly simple way