Over here, there is a formal duty to send you kids to school too, for a least 9 or 10 years (back when I was still in school it was 9 years, now it might have increased for an additional year because there's barely any use in the economy for people who have only their school certificate from the 9th grade. - But, mind you, education is a matter of the federal states here, so things can vary from Bundesland to Bundesland. And - 9/10 years of school don't have to mean you leave school with a graduation certificate. It only says "9/10 years of school", not that these must have been enough to get you into a year where graduation takes place.)
But, in the previous years, the agenda of "digitization" (Digitalisierung) more and more forces its ways into school, so that even school kids more have to do with computers than without - and guess what happens if you have kids who know how to play with a device, but the teacher is as digitally competent as a loaf of toast... Nothing good results from that. Additionally, parents who have done their best effort to keep their children away from media and playing up until this point, their work gets thrown into the trash can. Needless to say - teens/youngsters who have no interest in all that computerized stuff, maybe are from a rural area and enjoy their environment full of nature, those are fucked too. Because they have to deal with something in order for good grades which naturally isn't something they're good at and neither want to be good at.
Just saying - I remember, the last 2 years of high school, where they handed out a special calculator with graphics display capabilities on loan to all the students in these last two (senior) years because it was mandatory. (It was exactly this thing here: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00012BF9M/) In the end, a lot of students had many kinds of games from about the Gameboy area on it. Snake, Super Marioa, Tetris... (Mine only contained Tetris.) As the graphic capabilities of the machine were ca. at the height of the Gameboy. And that already was as much as 15 years ago, even before smartphones existed. ...That's what I would think also happened if students get a lot of tablet computers and laptops from their school as "material needed for the classes".
I think there already were some other people which put it pretty nicely: Humans have all the types of different technology to become professors, each of them, but, through the wrong style they're using these technologies, they make it to degrade themselves to the cognitive niveau of apes.
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But, in the previous years, the agenda of "digitization" (Digitalisierung) more and more forces its ways into school, so that even school kids more have to do with computers than without - and guess what happens if you have kids who know how to play with a device, but the teacher is as digitally competent as a loaf of toast... Nothing good results from that.
Additionally, parents who have done their best effort to keep their children away from media and playing up until this point, their work gets thrown into the trash can.
Needless to say - teens/youngsters who have no interest in all that computerized stuff, maybe are from a rural area and enjoy their environment full of nature, those are fucked too. Because they have to deal with something in order for good grades which naturally isn't something they're good at and neither want to be good at.
Just saying - I remember, the last 2 years of high school, where they handed out a special calculator with graphics display capabilities on loan to all the students in these last two (senior) years because it was mandatory. (It was exactly this thing here: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00012BF9M/)
In the end, a lot of students had many kinds of games from about the Gameboy area on it. Snake, Super Marioa, Tetris... (Mine only contained Tetris.) As the graphic capabilities of the machine were ca. at the height of the Gameboy.
And that already was as much as 15 years ago, even before smartphones existed.
...That's what I would think also happened if students get a lot of tablet computers and laptops from their school as "material needed for the classes".
I think there already were some other people which put it pretty nicely: Humans have all the types of different technology to become professors, each of them, but, through the wrong style they're using these technologies, they make it to degrade themselves to the cognitive niveau of apes.