This is interesting news.
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@joepie91 @paulschoe How did we get from the Dynabook and the Alto to going back to paper?
The people who came up with the laptop and tablet idea had education and kids specifically in mind. They brought kids in to play with the Alto to improve the GUI.
What went wrong?
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #ReadingI think parallel to learning how to read and (hand)write, today's children need to get taught when and how to use (and NOT to use) electronic devices. A terrifyingly big percentage will not get that from their parents sufficiently.
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@paulschoe @joepie91 Things had gone wrong before AI. Laptops and tablets in classrooms were proven to underperform paper and pencil pre-COVID and therefore pre-AI.
The available distractions were part of the problem, but so far we just do not know how to make software that teaches as effectively as reading and writing does.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe When I am learning lines for a play, I find that writing them down on pen and paper helps me retain what I'm saying and doing. The act of writing and processing also gives my brain time to really chew on the words and their meaning.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe the (not so) subtle allusion about children activating complex neural networks is not lost on me
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@paulschoe When I am learning lines for a play, I find that writing them down on pen and paper helps me retain what I'm saying and doing. The act of writing and processing also gives my brain time to really chew on the words and their meaning.
Totally agree. When learning a new language, it is the combination of writing and verbally repeating that triggers my memory. Typing doesn't have the same effect.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe This is what teachers everywhere were already telling for a decade or longer, also in Germany. They saw the first signs very early after the smartphoneization and tabletization of the kids started.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #ReadingLearning is best started without the use of any tools, by simply reasoning, thinking and developing skills...
It all makes a lot of sense.
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Learning is best started without the use of any tools, by simply reasoning, thinking and developing skills...
It all makes a lot of sense.
@xs4me2 @paulschoe That risks privileging some particular epistemologies above others because it pushes hard towards words and abstracts when implemented. Experience is important: it includes knowledge not available through words and symbols, and matches the learning needs and potentials of young children. Tools are essential from the very start. Not those horrid electronic tablets, though. Those are all about replacing experience with a thin simulacrum, about fooling us into thinking that we've experienced something when, in fact, all we've had is the cognitive–sensory equivalent of crappy (yet incredibly satisfying) fast food.
I've been fighting with my son's teachers (and indeed my son) about this since the beginning. He's 16 now and has come to realise that I was right all along, and has largely abandoned the digital stuff where he can in favour of handwriting. He's working on his handwriting quite hard now because he's coming to understand that it is not merely a ritual convention, but a cognitive tool for manipulating information.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #ReadingGreat news. And of course it’s simple really: Using a keyboard is typing. Using a pen or pencil is writing.
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Learning is best started without the use of any tools, by simply reasoning, thinking and developing skills...
It all makes a lot of sense.
@xs4me2 @paulschoe
the best would be a mix of everything so child can profit. Children are individuals and one size fits all is a bs idea, even in learning -
This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe Guess they saw it as detracting from actually being able to think.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe it gives us hope to know that someone, somewhere in the world is making the right call. we wish it were anywhere we lived, but still.
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“If we used tablets where we wrote by hand with a stylus, would that reduce the nastiness online? Would we feel that we were engaging in a more personal way with others? Would empathy be generated more often?”
I’m not that optimistic it would improve the general tenor online directly, but a lot more insults and flame wars would die out almost immediately due to mutual illegibility.
On the broader subject, I got a refurb’d reMarkable tablet from Woot earlier this year, and I use it just for handwriting notes for work. And it’s been way more useful than I ever expected. Expensive luxury, yes absolutely. Also kind of an ADHD crutch (don’t have multiple loose legal pads floating around, just the one expensive device with half a dozen digital notebooks).
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News and picture from a LinkedIn post by Marcel Norbart.
@paulschoe I would appreciate a scientific source.
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe Es verdad, que vuelva los textos escritos que estimulan la escritura, así como el desarrollo cerebral
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This is interesting news.
Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.
The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.
Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading@paulschoe This has been a great move for you people and France also recently had started a ban on young children using electronic computer devices.
True,they have been robbing the writing skills from young learners.
Here in Uganda,you cannot find a child at six years when she/he knows how to use a computer and this has not been affecting us -
@paulschoe I would appreciate a scientific source.
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@kauer
mostly abelist but at least there isn't even a source
@paulschoe -
I like your observation that "Being able to see and read a large double-page spread in one go, including illustrations & graphics, really mattered. '
