<story><title>Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark</title><url>https://theprivacydad.com/final-decision-on-chromebook-case-in-denmark/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway71271</author><text>Schools+laptops is absolutely crazy.&lt;p&gt;The amount of incompetence is beyond reason.&lt;p&gt;My daughter(12)&amp;#x27;s keyboard got broken, now she is afraid she wont be able to take her exam with an external keyboard because there is a spyware extension they use called &amp;#x27;safe exam browser&amp;#x27; that might block her computer when she plugs the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Most of the kids are just using it to snapchat during class.&lt;p&gt;I will honestly prefer to just ban all tech from schools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ho_schi</author><text>As far as I know Sweden is rolling back[1]large parts of the &lt;i&gt;digitalization&lt;/i&gt; at schools. Not just because of cloud usage, maintenance and incompetence.&lt;p&gt;The digital devices harm learning. Sweden will spend 60 million for reintroducing actual books, focus on actual reading and writing (important for learning and motoric ability).&lt;p&gt;I’m not surprised. While I’m sceptic about many positions of Manfred Spitzer [2] (University of Ulm) I’m afraid that he is right in many areas. A tablet is not the tool to discover the world for a child. They need to view, touch, smell and focus on matters.&lt;p&gt;Putting aside that Apple (iPad), Google (Chromebook) and Microsoft (Surface) just want to train child’s to depend on their stuff forever. We can still introduce computers at the age of 12 and the kids will adapt - and teach required basics (control your data, understand technic on high level, touch-typing, how you can access knowledge…and that a lot of companies and people are hostile).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;sep&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;sweden-says-back-to-basics-schooling-works-on-paper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;world&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;sep&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;sweden-says-ba...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Manfred_Spitzer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Manfred_Spitzer&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark</title><url>https://theprivacydad.com/final-decision-on-chromebook-case-in-denmark/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway71271</author><text>Schools+laptops is absolutely crazy.&lt;p&gt;The amount of incompetence is beyond reason.&lt;p&gt;My daughter(12)&amp;#x27;s keyboard got broken, now she is afraid she wont be able to take her exam with an external keyboard because there is a spyware extension they use called &amp;#x27;safe exam browser&amp;#x27; that might block her computer when she plugs the keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Most of the kids are just using it to snapchat during class.&lt;p&gt;I will honestly prefer to just ban all tech from schools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caldarons</author><text>As someone who went to a high school (Italy) where in the first two years each student had a laptop they could use in the classroom, I agree that having a computer per student is a bad idea.&lt;p&gt;In my experience, what ended up happening was that pupils who already knew their way around a computer didn&amp;#x27;t really get any extra benefit from using cmputers in the classroom and those who didn&amp;#x27;t like using computers hated it even more when forced to write out an assignment on a keyboard as supposed to handwriting.&lt;p&gt;Most importantly though, they were a HUGE distraction. Any time the lesson got boring because the teacher wasn&amp;#x27;t good or just not good at getting the kids engaged in the lesson (which happened quite often sadly, but that is another discussion) we would all just start playing on the computers. Some kids came to school just to play videogames and barely learned anything.&lt;p&gt;Now, some of these issues (like bad professors, smart kids getting bored because of slow pace of lessons) have always been present in every school all over the world but I do think that having tech in the classroom just makes things worse, as now even those who would have normally followed the lesson are tempted to just turn on their computer and pretend to take notes when really they are playing Candy crush. It&amp;#x27;s bad enough being a teenager and being bombarded with stimuli from your phone and social media, having that kind of distraction at school just makes things even worse.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, I think tech in school is one of those things that sounds great but usually just back-fires in spectacular ways (imho).</text></comment>