silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThe U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parentsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square175linkfedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1978arrow-down1external-linkThe U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parentsfortune.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square175linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 days ago<By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools.> There’s your problem right there, you bought computers which basically have no programs written for them.
<By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools.>
There’s your problem right there, you bought computers which basically have no programs written for them.