Mastodawn

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

#edtech #education

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z-less-cognitively-capable-parents-first-time-cellphone-bans-standardized-test-scores/

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology.

Fortune

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Downes 🍁Feb 22

@markhurst @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

Laptops do not inherently degrade cognition or learning. Poorly designed instructional systems using laptops do.

Numerous studies have shown this.

Here's an AI-authored article in response to the (likely) AI-authored article in Fortune: https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/02/laptops-in-schools-are-not-problem.html

Laptops in Schools Are Not the Problem: Misuse Is

This article was written by ChatGPT 5.2 based on some prompts provided by myself. See the conversation here . I always write my articles wit...

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Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦Feb 22

@Downes @markhurst @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social I knew the rumors of Snarkbook were true! Someone has built an agentic AI system where bots write sarcastic blog posts, reply with more posts and comments, plus rail more in social media.

All freeing us up to do, um, oh, yeah!

Brave New World finally is here. Great hockey match BTW, but oh the curling gold!

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Downes 🍁

@cogdog @markhurst @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Yeah, I know, I have mixed feelings about what I did.

But I couldn't help it... someone was *wrong* on the internet!