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Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies (fortune.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Man… coolmathgames.com and all the sites that would pop up to get around the school filters.

I also remember playing RuneScape in the lab, and passing around a flash drive with Halo CE on it.

But not like we had access to it all the damn time. You had to actually go to a computer lab or library for that shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah. My kid doesn't go to a school where they use computers or iPads this way, but I have to assume that lessons are done on device and therein lies the problem. Can't confiscate the device because then the kid can't do the lessons. So now teachers have to fund classrooms partially out of their own pocket, spend unpaid time outside school hours to do marking and lesson planning, and play IT. Teachers already have a lot on their plates without adding an extra burden that the administration should be addressing properly.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Basically the district he’s in now issues iPads. All course work is done on them through a mix of Canvas, Google Docs, and some websites. We talked with the school and had a thing where he’d have to leave it there and check it out in the morning cause he couldn’t be trusted with it.

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