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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

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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

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

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There are even people writing ‘software’ who don’t know that.
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  I’m so fucking happy I’m not the only one who has noticed that.
  
  jesus christ we’re so fucked.
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  Wait I don’t get it. How is this possible?

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