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School gets rid of laptops, scores go up. Shocker.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 5/24/26 at 1:27 pm
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Posted on 5/24/26 at 3:19 pm to prplhze2000
Yep, as soon as you issue laptops or chromebooks, your scores go down. And despite the fact that research shows students learn best from textbooks, we continue to get away from them.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 3:24 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
I’ll continue to say the neighborhood one room schoolhouse which uses pencil paper and books only are the best way to administer a grade school through high school education.
Posted on 5/24/26 at 3:27 pm to prplhze2000
The children yearn for pencils and paper
Posted on 5/24/26 at 3:29 pm to Lawyered
quote:There is something about writing things that helps us retain and process information. Screens cannot duplicate that.
pencils and paper
Posted on 5/24/26 at 3:31 pm to prplhze2000
And yet this board and especially the politards rush to post shite they find on twitter like its gospel
f'in retards
f'in retards
Posted on 5/24/26 at 3:37 pm to prplhze2000
Screens are not very helpful for learning. They have way too severe of drawbacks.
The more multiple senses are involved in the learning process, the deeper the learning. Even if you use computers/AI to help you study and synthesize the information, you’re not learning the information as deeply, and it will lead to lower levels of learning and retention. Writing, listening, and reading or seeing slides/written info involves more senses in a more focused manner and will lead to more effective learning.
The more multiple senses are involved in the learning process, the deeper the learning. Even if you use computers/AI to help you study and synthesize the information, you’re not learning the information as deeply, and it will lead to lower levels of learning and retention. Writing, listening, and reading or seeing slides/written info involves more senses in a more focused manner and will lead to more effective learning.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 8:28 pm to wallowinit
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I’ll continue to say the neighborhood one room schoolhouse which uses pencil paper and books only are the best way to administer a grade school through high school education.
My mother taught 1st thru 7th grades in a one room school house in Lincoln County, WV for several years. Her students always outscored the kids who went to larger schools on the testing and at the science fairs. She attributed a large portion of her students' success to the fact that even the first graders were exposed to the 7th grade curricula simply by being in the same room when it was taught. Not to mention that any older children who had been having a hard time in a particular subject were able to pick up some remedial learning time when the younger groups were given their lessons.
Posted on 5/26/26 at 9:20 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Yep, as soon as you issue laptops or chromebooks, your scores go down. And despite the fact that research shows students learn best from textbooks, we continue to get away from them.
After running The local.scbool board budget through GROK and asking questions I had it extrapolate the cost of education with laptops and that for the current student and compare to traditional textbooks adjusted for inflation and it calculated we are spending anywhere from 5 to 22 times more per student compared to traditional texts.
I couldn't narrow it further since the budget was soooo broad on some categories you had to ask the school system for a more direct breakdown of all these generic categories
Posted on 5/26/26 at 10:11 pm to wallowinit
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I’ll continue to say the neighborhood one room schoolhouse which uses pencil paper and books only are the best way to administer a grade school through high school education.
It always kills me when they say the inner city school children do poorly because those schools are funded as well as the schools
In nice suburbs. For 200 years kids learned reading, writing, and arithmetic just fine with nothing more than chalkboards, textbooks and a Big Chief notebook.
Posted on 5/27/26 at 1:32 am to prplhze2000
Writing crystallizes thought
Posted on 5/27/26 at 8:56 pm to Swamp Angel
That pretty much nails it.
Imagine how little education would cost. No busing. No facilities except a one room schoolhouse per neighborhood paid for directly from the parents to the one room, schoolhouse facility and teacher.. One school teacher, and maybe an assistant.
Books only. Paper and pencil only.
No bloated administration. No teachers union.
You could go on and on thinking about the cost savings and benefits to the students in actually learning things that are useful in this world instead of what we are getting, which is garbage and we are breaking the bank doing it.
Imagine how little education would cost. No busing. No facilities except a one room schoolhouse per neighborhood paid for directly from the parents to the one room, schoolhouse facility and teacher.. One school teacher, and maybe an assistant.
Books only. Paper and pencil only.
No bloated administration. No teachers union.
You could go on and on thinking about the cost savings and benefits to the students in actually learning things that are useful in this world instead of what we are getting, which is garbage and we are breaking the bank doing it.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 3:03 am to prplhze2000
this absolutely makes sense
Posted on 5/28/26 at 7:41 am to prplhze2000
The dependence on electronics has hurt teachers and students
Posted on 5/28/26 at 7:44 am to Lawyered
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The children yearn for pencils and paper
This post was edited on 5/28/26 at 7:46 am
Posted on 5/28/26 at 7:59 am to prplhze2000
I'm sure it depends on the school is my guess.
Posted on 5/28/26 at 8:10 am to Hangover Haven
How many all white girls schools are in the US?
This post was edited on 5/28/26 at 10:31 am
Posted on 5/28/26 at 8:25 am to Lawyered
Children today hate writing notes as much as we did; however, multiple studies show that writing down information helps retain it. Textbooks and single-room schoolhouses are not the answer because information changes so fast, and textbooks would need to be replaced every year or two. Single-house classrooms wouldn't work, as some would have 30+ students of varying ages and abilities. Finding the common ground and using computers smartly is what is needed.
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