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"What Kane is skeptical of is the prevailing assumption that technology is a valuable asset for teachers and students in schools. 'Classrooms are social spaces and collective endeavors,' he explained. Screens, however, 'tend to distract and divide us.'"

The Broken Promises of Ed Tech
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/teachers-screens-edtech-students/686681/

https://archive.ph/dc2D9

What Happened After a Teacher Ditched Screens

Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them

The Atlantic

The irony is post-secondary professors are finding students coming in from high school don't have any typing skills, or basic understanding of using a computer.

But this is par course. We've been "back to basic" before. I was in school in the 90's and 2000's when educational reforms happned to go "back to basics"... I still remember my tearchers insisting that email was a fad geeky techonogly that will pass.

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Ron Dyck 1d ago

@Christopher I believe there's an extra factor to be had that sets this apart from previous common sense revolutions, if you will. I've seen it with my own kids, the way to catch them up when they fall behind is to sit down and help, but with the Chromebook in the mix it doesn't stick. With paper, it does. Admittedly anecdotal evidence. Similarly, I find it much easier to remember things if I (hand) wrote them down while listening, even if I never refer to the notes.

Personal notes are one thing, and writing by paper is definitely better for earlier grades.

But at most grade 7/8 (grade 9 at the latest) they should only *then* switched to things like computers when the workload starts increasing dramatically.