Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬3d ago
#Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at #Schools Extends Beyond Phones
For more than a decade, tech companies have urged schools to buy one laptop per child, arguing that the devices would democratize education and bolster learning. Now Google and Microsoft, along with newcomers like OpenAI, are vying to spread their #AI in schools.
No more YouTube or video games. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/technology/chromebook-remorse-kansas-school-laptops.html
https://archive.ph/zOEq4
Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones

No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.

The New York Times
Show threadColeen Walter
@BenjaminHCCarr This issue vexed me throughout my children’s education. The increasing use of software for literacy education in elementary schools began to edge out actual books. It got to the point where I began to worry it would take away my children’s love of reading. Thankfully our home was filled with real books from our amazing public library. I was so frustrated that simply reading to children did not seem to be part of the conversation for improving literacy.
#literacy #education
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