Can we get a source more swedish than “Indian Defense Review”?
Maybe we should compromise and look for a Georgian source
Honestly I think there is room for a middle ground. E-Ink tablets. I remember all the backbreaking heavy books I had to carry as a kid and don’t want my nieces and nephews dealing with that but the current screen time is not great either. E-ink has inherent limitations that make it a poor fit for all the worst parts of the tech industry but great for this.
It still doesn’t solve the part where it’s not a book. As a CS major a lot of my books went digital early on. I can say from experience that there’s something about having to press a button to go to turn the page that makes it far less intuitive and harder to research in. Regardless of E ink or laptop or whatever.
I acquired two academical degrees: First in Computer Science, later in Philosophy. It became my firmest standpoint that books are absolutely underrated.
ctrl+f made life much easier for me
Great, I say, with kids in middle school, here in Sweden. Problem has not been the hardware,
Partly software, due to it is shit “it must be cheap”. Example, where I failed the test, the word training software provided me with the word for “Farfar” which is specific for dads father in Swedish, I wrote grandfather…“wrong” it is grandad… Ok let’s try again…Granddad…“wrong” it shall be “grandad” No development. It is as dumb as 1998 bash code…
But first and foremost… The process, the school organisation does not have a single way of communicating to the kids, in our school, each teacher used different platforms to communicate to the kids ie teams, WhatsApp mail etc. They did not understand or like the provided software they should use etc.computer system knowledge is at a very low level. I blame the organism behind the main keyboard, most teachers does not have the right competency to teach with the tool at hand.
You have a beautiful tool that can hold worlds knowledge, but it means shit when the mentor does not know or even refuse to embrace the the tool and develop how to use, it then it does not help.
It like taking driving lessons from a persons that has only handled a horse.
I’ve never seen someone stop while walking on a stair case to pull out a book.
ive never seen someone break ‘staircase’ into two words.
lol this reminds me of that time on chemistry class, one of the guys who didn’t want to be there asked the teacher “what am I going to do with chemistry in my life? Like if I become a car sales man, what use is chemistry!?” and the teacher just quietly muttered the answer… “well I wouldn’t buy a car from a guy who doesn’t know the difference between hydrogen and petrol…” and then continued the lesson.
The guy was pretty quiet for the rest of the day lol.
The sorts of computers kids should be using are things like Raspberry Pis, and they should be using them to learn about computing itself, not just using a word processor for their homework or whatever.
They hardly even use the hardware at all, its all on google drive and canvas or whatever now
Not a big surprise. In my opinion technology needs mostly to be eliminated from the classroom except on classes designed to teach how to use it and how it works. Its a distraction for most students.
I don’t care how they try to stop it, give a kid computer/tablet/etc and they will figure out a way to play games on it, send messages to friends, and do anything else other than the schoolwork assigned to them.
The human brain evolved in a complex environment with all sorts of stimulus. It needs varied interactions with the environment to process and retain information effectively.
In 15 years, they would have hopefully replaced those textbooks at least twice anyway. Or those are going to be some ratty-ass textbooks…
I sense some anti-tech-bias here. Afaik they only want to completely abandon screens for kids under six. I have not found more details for older ones.
