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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was unmedicated ad undiagnosed at his age. I just worked a lot harder for less results than people around me. I was much more vested than he is in the outcome. [/quote]
Same.  I'm not OP.  Also, my work ethic improved over time. I was a lazy, average student in high school, a good student in undergrad, and a great student in grad school.  But now I have a 2E boy, and I don't know if it's a gender thing or what, but he struggles in ways that I never did.  [b]Part of it is just the world is different now with phones and laptops in school. [/b] But my strategies alone don't work.  The hardest part is trying to motivate him to want to do well in school.  Their generation of boys believe that AI is going to replace knowledge jobs, so what's the point?  [/quote]
Ex-teacher here.  I think smart phones and EdTech make it harder to develop work ethic, motivation and EF.  I think this issue impacts SN kids more than it impacts NT kids.  I predict that for every kid whose life is changed by spellcheck, or who will find AI to be the great leveler career wise, several other SN kids will drop further and further behind their peers.  On average, it'll affect more boys than girls.  [/quote]

So true.  I wish I could find a highschool for my 2E boy where he took all of his classes outside using actual text books, pen and paper.  No cell phones allowed.  All the screen time in school is absolutely killing him.  It's not EdTech per se, as I'm following the debate on that thread, it's being on a screen all day, with very restrictions on distracting content.  Some of the Edtech is fine if he was only on a screen for one or two hours a day and they blocked web access outside of that program.  The issue is that he's on a screen all day at high school, and it's killing him.  He's lost and overwhelmed and not learning. [/quote]

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