• Fishnoodle@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    No. Shit.

    Giving every student a distraction to take with them everywhere typically is a bad idea.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      If it so much as has a button to change text size I know kids would rather mash that button and watch the screen go crazy than to pay attention to the lesson.

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        7 hours ago

        This is a problem for adults too, which is why they make dedicated distraction free writing devices and software. It’s not the screens, it’s how they are being used.

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          6 hours ago

          Call me old school, or just old, but my goto dedicated distraction free writing devices are a stack of paper (I prefer it bound in some kind of notebook) and a pen.

          And I have spent the majority of my life in front of a screen, for both work and pleasure. /shrug

    • stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I knew the school laptops were fucked up when my kids started choosing to spend their limited screentime on them instead of iPads or the Switch or the TV.