Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools. By 2016, those numbers had multiplied to 66,000 laptops and tablets distributed to Maine students.
The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.
Like, wtf is that sentence even supposed to mean.
Pretty much every single time someone does a study on “technological* impact on learning” for example handwriting and typing, they mess with the methodology or they don’t have a good control group or system. And then the result is always that their traditional system is better.
They never genuinely switch methods and put effort into TEACHING the new tech and with the new tech. Obviously you can’t just hand out laptop and the competence just… diffuses into the kids, because internet. That’s nonsense.
Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores.
one guy noticing a correlation better not be “good science” at this point.
They kinda do, but I dont think its due to exposure to it, theyre just amazingly easy to use these days. They’re very very intuitive.
I have no idea how my phone works, because I’ve never needed to learn. Its always just done exactly what I need it to do. I used to know pretty much everything about windows XP though.
I don’t think that’s the problem.
Like, wtf is that sentence even supposed to mean.
Pretty much every single time someone does a study on “technological* impact on learning” for example handwriting and typing, they mess with the methodology or they don’t have a good control group or system. And then the result is always that their traditional system is better.
They never genuinely switch methods and put effort into TEACHING the new tech and with the new tech. Obviously you can’t just hand out laptop and the competence just… diffuses into the kids, because internet. That’s nonsense.
one guy noticing a correlation better not be “good science” at this point.
Oh, but that “diffusal” is literally what has always been sold, that the kids are “digital natives” that just know how to use tech.
Now us millennials need to provide tech support to both Boomers and Gen-Z
They kinda do, but I dont think its due to exposure to it, theyre just amazingly easy to use these days. They’re very very intuitive.
I have no idea how my phone works, because I’ve never needed to learn. Its always just done exactly what I need it to do. I used to know pretty much everything about windows XP though.