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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 (fortune.com)
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[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My kids are given Chromebooks. The schools are getting them registered with Google as early as possible.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

So Google can begin tracking and advertising to them

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This. And chromebooks are glorified tablets. Much less capable than a proper laptop, much less for a child to learn than a proper laptop. Google did MASSIVE pushing to get chromebooks into the classroom to get kids hooked on their platform as early as possible