I’m genuinely trying to understand your point. Do you mean we should still follow what people were doing in 1800s? People are dog pilling on you and while it’s true 1800s people were relative brutes I’m not sure what that adds to this discussion?
What? The software is incredible these days. It literally detects dangers and warns you. Check out Bark which is only 14$/mo but even Google family does a lot of that for free
It’s already laughably easy to parent these days. Parental controls are on every device and require so little effort. You dont even have to pay that much attentjo - the software literally analyzes use and reports notification. It’s so stupidly easy and still people can’t do it. Literally ask any of supporters of this what parental control system they use and most are dumbfounded and just change the topic.
It’s never about protecting kids.
Why does it have to be a tablet? Most physics and math probles are already solved in ipython notebooks. Seeing immediate rich features is crazy good for learning.
As for book unique benefits - yes but that can be replicated with software very well if not better. For example having an infinite board is incredible for mind mapping and just as an efficient work space.
We could argue day and night about benefits and capabilities of each form but reality is that software is incredibly important in our society today and yet people are still mostly software illiterate. Even if tablets and computers were worse than pens and textbooks it would still be more valuable to use them to expand general computer use skills.
I feel like that’s still an implementation issue not the fact of that “digital is worse” and yeah you’re probably right - the roll out should be better. Using proprietary apple devices and shit by multi trillion budget enterprises (countries) is stupid. The government should task entire governed system with years of preparation and diligent implementation with optimized ebook software and curriculum distribution.
This is entirely a skill issue not a technology / medium issue.
Digital is clearly here to stay and superior form of information exchange - it’s literally called IT. To say that we should go back to pen, paper and text books is just pure incompetence. I speak from experience myself as I am a published author but I’m never writing an educational book again when websites exists - physical textbooks are incredibly archaic and should be abandoned entirely and I’ll die on this hill.
What a silly naturalist falacy. Were not built by anyone and evolutionary speaking pen writing is not any more special than writing on a digital screen. All of the science here is unconvincing at best and fake bullshit at worst.
It’s entirely a skill issue.
Correlation =/= causation. Somehow other countries did it right? So maybe it’s just US thing
This is a lost battle either way but a non-lost opportunity to acquire some power
Loterally says “Forced a woman”
If the child ignores the parents and uses hacks to bypass parenting controls then no parenting control will ever help. It’s a tool and it must be based on existing parenting foundation not replace parenting.
If a child receives a smartphone the very minimum parents must do is establish trust in the social contract between the two parties: “I give you a phone and use a privacy respecting parental control if you agree to not mess with it and keep me in the loop”. If this simple base cannot be established then all parental control is moot and we failed already.
It’s really not that hard. I used to think these magement and conflict parts are the hard parts of parenting but it’s really not, the hard part is how much time/energy kids eat up to the point where it’s easy to be lazy and not pursue management solutions which are really simple.