Sorry, but it isn’t the devices.

It’s the software. The companies making all those millions made horrible software that makes learning harder. My kid going through high school with the shitty programs foisted on them had way less trouble just using their personal tablet looking information up and figuring it out than using the crap on the school tablet.

Then they still had to go in and deal with the software to submit lessons and assignments, so it was more time consuming and more hassle to learn a given amount of a subject.

Plus, the sources allowed for teachers to use as tools were fucking abysmal.

It wasn’t using tablets ans laptops that was the problem, it was shitty companies with abusive contracts wasting school funding on software that just didn’t work worth a damn.

And it isn’t/wasn’t just our school district. My niece deals with the same bullshit. So do my younger cousins.

Hell, I’m a fairly tech friendly dude that’s been fucking around with computers since the eighties. I had trouble navigating the school software.

It’s a cluster fuck

@Innerworld #edtech Sweden went back to textbooks, I believe. Perhaps more research is needed to look at how tech could improve learning. #education #educationalresearch #educationalresearchers

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