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Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a fluff article but about a well signposted issue in education: tech in schools may be pushing education backwards.

Many countries have embraced tech in schools - such as laptops for students - and big tech companies in the US have been enthusiastic about getting their tech in front of young people as they will be the consumers of the future. But despite the billions spent it seems to actually be damaging education.

There are educationalists pushing for tech to be taken out of schools and go back to methods that actually do produce consistently good results.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's because the boomers running shit thinks kids have as much difficulty with tech that they do.

Kids will just pick that shit up, thats the entire point of why we stay kids so long.

But if you don't teach them critical thinking at that age, they're fucked for life.

Even if they learn current tech, it'll be different by the time they get jobs.

But critical thinking never changes

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can pick it up after, it's just much harder

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They really can't...

They can learn some critical thinking later, but it'll never be the same as if they learned it as children.

Like if you found out you were in the Olympics for the 100m sprint next year. You could improve your performance in a year, but you'll never match someone whose trained their whole life at it.

For all intents and purposes every improvement between now and next year aren't gonna matter, last place is last place, regardless of your time.

That's what it would be like to not learn critical thinking until an adult.