In 2002, Maine became the first state to implement a statewide laptop program to some grade levels. Then-governor Angus King saw the program as a way to put the internet at the fingertips of more children, who would be able to immerse themselves in information.
By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools. By 2016, those numbers had multiplied to 66,000 laptops and tablets distributed to Maine students.
King’s initial efforts have been mirrored across the country. In 2024, the U.S. spent more than $30 billion putting laptops and tablets in schools. But more than a quarter-century and numerous evolving models of technology later, psychologists and learning experts see a different outcome than the one King intended. Rather than empowering the generation with access to more knowledge, the technology had the opposite effect.
They still do that to millennials. Boomers haven't stopped berating us for not having houses or giving them grandchildren.
I'm on the Millenial-Gen X cusp so I've been getting the best of all that shit my whole life and I hate seeing it on repeat with Z and Alpha.
Stop blaming kids for you failimg them.
Also, I just recently realized that all thr movies I grew up with depicted 30 somethings like their lives were over while camp and highschool movies abounded.
The boomers were a generation that peaked in highschool and had their mediocrity catered to the rest of their lives.