sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoSchools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policiesfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1531
arrow-up1531external-linkSchools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policiesfortune.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squareisleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoNo. The technology itself is the problem. Tablets and laptops are not suited for ordinary classroom instruction. I don’t care if they’re delivered by a billion dollar private equity firm or a ragtag FOSS project. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2584340 All this talk of FOSS is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
No. The technology itself is the problem. Tablets and laptops are not suited for ordinary classroom instruction. I don’t care if they’re delivered by a billion dollar private equity firm or a ragtag FOSS project.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2584340
All this talk of FOSS is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.