▲ 965 ▼ The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents (fortune.com) submitted 8 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world 165 comments fedilink hide all child comments Archived copies of the article: ghostarchive.org web.archive.org
[+] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 child) Yeah, my 8-year-old has the chrome book, but also gets physical homework, paper and pencil. Dunno how it'll be as she gets older, but I like how it is so far. I was thinking about trying to find Mavis Beacon and somehow getting it to function on Windows 11. No idea if there's compatible versions. But I used Mavis Beacon all the time growing up and enjoyed the games, made learning to type (properly) fun. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 child) Yeah, my 8-year-old has the chrome book, but also gets physical homework, paper and pencil. Dunno how it'll be as she gets older, but I like how it is so far. I was thinking about trying to find Mavis Beacon and somehow getting it to function on Windows 11. No idea if there's compatible versions. But I used Mavis Beacon all the time growing up and enjoyed the games, made learning to type (properly) fun. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)