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[quote=Anonymous]The irony of this is that we knew it all along. Sometime in the 1990's, there was a study in Peru where they gave every kid a laptop. Rather than becoming tech geniuses, the kids stopped caring about school, helped out less at home and spent a lot of time playing video games. Despite that study, American schools went all in on one-to-one devices and are now surprised that kids can't read as well, their math skills are worse and social skills are rock bottom. (For the person who is thinking, but my kid is doing great with his laptop on all day, your kid is very much the exception.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-19/michael-bloomberg-kids-are-spending-too-much-class-time-on-laptops

Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other devices in hopes of preparing kids for a digital future. The result? Students have fallen further behind on the skills they most need to succeed in careers: the three R’s plus a fourth — relationships.

Today, about 90% of schools provide laptops or tablets to their students. Yet as students spend more time than ever on screens, social skills are deteriorating and test scores are near historic lows.

Just 28% of eighth graders are proficient in math and 30% in reading. For 12th graders, the numbers are similarly dismal (24% in math and 37% in reading, according to the most recently available scores). And US students have also fallen further behind their peers in other countries.

The push for laptops in classrooms came from technologists, think tanks and government officials, who imagined that the devices would allow for curricula to be tailored around student needs, empowering them to learn at their own pace and raising achievement levels. It hasn’t worked.[/quote]

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