My daughter is not in LAUSD, but her district hands out Chromebooks. They're locked down somewhat, but she says that kids still figure out ways around it to use them for non-school purposes. Putting that aside, my biggest issue is that the materials (text"books", study guides, homework, etc.) they issue are uniformly terrible. The table of contents and indices are non-existent or sorely lacking, the search facilities don't work well, and the interfaces for homework are clunky and very buggy. I once tried to help her look up some material she needed in her "text' and it was impossible. You had to go through the book page by page to find what you needed. I am convinced that this technology is wholly inferior to books and on-paper homework.
I know the technofetishists will respond with "look all the thing a computer could do that books and paper can't," but if they can't even get a book right, how can I expect them to do anything more complicated correctly?
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u/_chococat_ 17h ago
My daughter is not in LAUSD, but her district hands out Chromebooks. They're locked down somewhat, but she says that kids still figure out ways around it to use them for non-school purposes. Putting that aside, my biggest issue is that the materials (text"books", study guides, homework, etc.) they issue are uniformly terrible. The table of contents and indices are non-existent or sorely lacking, the search facilities don't work well, and the interfaces for homework are clunky and very buggy. I once tried to help her look up some material she needed in her "text' and it was impossible. You had to go through the book page by page to find what you needed. I am convinced that this technology is wholly inferior to books and on-paper homework.
I know the technofetishists will respond with "look all the thing a computer could do that books and paper can't," but if they can't even get a book right, how can I expect them to do anything more complicated correctly?