Now THAT's a headline.
Uncategorized
22
Posts
18
Posters
9
Views
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst yeah it's pretty grim out there
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst there are so many problems with this article. The first being the researchers relied on standardized tests as an accurate measure.
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Sounds like success… for the owner class :(
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8vIt has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
1/
-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8vIt has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
1/
2/
In an effort to resegregate public education, billionaires & their bigots have torched the engine of American innovation & progress.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5484190-literacy-crisis-national-literacy-month/
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/12/america-read-below-6th-grade-level/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/geography/maps/adult-literacy-rates-by-state
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/12th-grade-reading-skills-low-naep.html
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst if that laptop is what they are using I'm sure they will have some kind of cognitive incapability 😭😭
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst US have been degrading since at least 90s so no surprise here
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Which is exactly what they wanted, more stupid gringos...
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Alarming given that, as Horvath put it:
“We’re facing challenges more complex and far-reaching than any in human history—from overpopulation to evolving diseases to moral drift. Now, more than ever, we need a generation able to grapple with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today.”
-
undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic
-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8vIt has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
1/
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Writing by hand is critically important to cognitive development. Probably eating ants out of small holes with a honey covered stick serves the same purpose, but we don't do that anymore. We are tool users. Our brains are wired for it.
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Technosolutionism is a very bad habit.
Bill Gates has also implemented Ill conceived education schemes with bad outcomes for students https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-670d3c2eb90c4a6db6cdb92ada3daa3b -
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Sure - It's the screens. Not at all anything to do with spending the last six years conducting the *stupidest experiment ever* of measuring the effects of repeatedly infecting children with a neuro-invasive virus noted for causing symptoms often described as brain fog.
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Illustrates the utter stupidity of the Trump administration, pure evil…
-
@markhurst Sure - It's the screens. Not at all anything to do with spending the last six years conducting the *stupidest experiment ever* of measuring the effects of repeatedly infecting children with a neuro-invasive virus noted for causing symptoms often described as brain fog.
@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maine’s public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Brainrot is real.
-
@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maine’s public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.
@skua @markhurst Show me graphs of Maine's classroom teacher to student ratios for the last fifteen years. Show me teacher pay and average educational achievement. Show me child poverty rates. Show me data on kids needing food assistance and whether they are getting it. Show me vaccination rates.
-
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Tablets were supposed to complement textbooks, not replace them entirely!
Feed RSS
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@dandylyons@iosdev.space buried in there are shots fired at JSON-LD 🤣
> An early attempt to introduce a structured notation for chalkboard content, known as JSON-LD (Joint Standardised Notation for Leisure Displays), was proposed by a committee of the British Beer and Pub Association in 2004. The notation required events to be written in a rigid format with bracketed metadata: “[TYPE:quiz][DAY:thu][TIME:20:00] QUIZ NIGHT.” It was trialled at four pubs in Reading and abandoned within a week after staff refused to use it on grounds that it “looked like someone had a stroke while writing the board.”
-
Milano: «Scomodo» e un libro di Michele Gambino
@anarchia
di Giuliano Spagnul. Via Tofane a Milano, che affianca il Naviglio della Martesana, si trova in quella periferia a nord-est che ha visto “nel giro di pochi anni, quattro fiorenti borghi [diventare una] superaffollata zona 10”. Continuando a consultare https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/milano-scomodo-e-un-libro-di-michele-gambino/
-
@naturzukunft2026@mastodon.social what's a "show thread" request?
-
“Dopo la pace”? E prima no?
From: @gazette
https://friendica.icb.at/display/8b6dc65f-2169-9a59-8699-3af660064272
-
Measle Zappa
-
Conversazione con Maurizio Acerbo nell'anniversario del "Manifesto" di Marx ed Engels.
S01E21: 60 minuti di comunismo, cultura, storia, politica e società, in una conversazione con Maurizio Acerbo, segretario di @rifondazione Comunista. In allegato libri di Marx, Engels, Gramsci, Burroughs, Hobsbawm. Colonna sonora a cura di Bob Dylan, Simple Minds, Arturo Toscanini. Buon ascolto, buone letture e buona resistenza.
-
@markhurst imagine being the kid picked for this picture
-
@skua @markhurst There are lots of confounding variables other than laptops and tablets, yet we always see articles like this and almost never on the other factors. Yeah, a lot of this predates Covid, but there is a general lack of willingness to even consider or acknowledge the effects of this disease on children and the culpability that schools, school boards and society at large have in not making every effort to reduce exposure in an environment they are forced into.
