This is a fluff article but about a well signposted issue in education: tech in schools may be pushing education backwards.
Many countries have embraced tech in schools - such as laptops for students - and big tech companies in the US have been enthusiastic about getting their tech in front of young people as they will be the consumers of the future. But despite the billions spent it seems to actually be damaging education.
There are educationalists pushing for tech to be taken out of schools and go back to methods that actually do produce consistently good results.
They can learn some critical thinking later, but it’ll never be the same as if they learned it as children.
Like if you found out you were in the Olympics for the 100m sprint next year. You could improve your performance in a year, but you’ll never match someone whose trained their whole life at it.
For all intents and purposes every improvement between now and next year aren’t gonna matter, last place is last place, regardless of your time.
That’s what it would be like to not learn critical thinking until an adult.
Sounds like an article written by a boomer:“back in my day we learned with BOOKS!”. Now I like printed dead trees too, but the same shit you learn on a textbook you can learn on well made digital platform, even better. Now I emphasized ‘well made’ cause I’m under the impression that till now ‘tech in schools’ was intended more like “let’s sell them a lot of PCs, and a lots of windows licenses, and a lot of edumacashional software”.
Apart from writing by hand, I don’t know what could be better Removing tech from school.
You are an entire system. Your hands, your eyes, your brain, it’s all connected.
When you write something by hand, your brain is more engaged than it is typing. The physical act of forming letters matters. You are far more likely to recall the information hand-written versus typed.
It should be obvious that this difference becomes staggering when you consider that with AI you aren’t writing it, you aren’t even typing the material. You’re barely proof-reading it.
This is a fluff article but about a well signposted issue in education: tech in schools may be pushing education backwards.
Many countries have embraced tech in schools - such as laptops for students - and big tech companies in the US have been enthusiastic about getting their tech in front of young people as they will be the consumers of the future. But despite the billions spent it seems to actually be damaging education.
There are educationalists pushing for tech to be taken out of schools and go back to methods that actually do produce consistently good results.
It’s because the boomers running shit thinks kids have as much difficulty with tech that they do.
Kids will just pick that shit up, thats the entire point of why we stay kids so long.
But if you don’t teach them critical thinking at that age, they’re fucked for life.
Even if they learn current tech, it’ll be different by the time they get jobs.
But critical thinking never changes
They can pick it up after, it’s just much harder
They really can’t…
They can learn some critical thinking later, but it’ll never be the same as if they learned it as children.
Like if you found out you were in the Olympics for the 100m sprint next year. You could improve your performance in a year, but you’ll never match someone whose trained their whole life at it.
For all intents and purposes every improvement between now and next year aren’t gonna matter, last place is last place, regardless of your time.
That’s what it would be like to not learn critical thinking until an adult.
Sounds like an article written by a boomer:“back in my day we learned with BOOKS!”. Now I like printed dead trees too, but the same shit you learn on a textbook you can learn on well made digital platform, even better. Now I emphasized ‘well made’ cause I’m under the impression that till now ‘tech in schools’ was intended more like “let’s sell them a lot of PCs, and a lots of windows licenses, and a lot of edumacashional software”. Apart from writing by hand, I don’t know what could be better Removing tech from school.
You are an entire system. Your hands, your eyes, your brain, it’s all connected.
When you write something by hand, your brain is more engaged than it is typing. The physical act of forming letters matters. You are far more likely to recall the information hand-written versus typed.
https://studyfinds.com/handwriting-typing-which-is-better-for-brain/
It should be obvious that this difference becomes staggering when you consider that with AI you aren’t writing it, you aren’t even typing the material. You’re barely proof-reading it.