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Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class (www.yahoo.com)
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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (6 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

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yup. Give 'em laptops or tablets if you like. Maybe you break their distance vision in exchange for saving their backs from the half a dozen hardback tomes and trapper-keeper we used to lug around. Textbooks can be updated quicker, incorporate video, and if there are public domain texts, they can be provided for free. Completing worksheets with a keyboard and trackpad also doesn't worry me, and I actually wish we had class discussion boards when I was in school.

    Leveraging tech because it provides some practical benefit is just common sense, but thinking the tech is the benefit is stupid, so of course that's where we are, driven by the olds you mention, as well as a healthy ecosystem of ed-tech grifters.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah you're right. Makes me even more grateful for my education.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    American education system really peaked with "The Oregon Trail Generation" before No Child Left Behind...

    And that's a thought that's kept me awake more than a few nights, because we still didn't get a good education.

    Ever since the focus has been short term cramming for tests. All the shit that got tossed out was about critical thinking and empathy, and somehow people are still shocked later generations are lacking both at concerning levels.

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