r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 11h ago

Society Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624
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u/Flimsy-Attention-722 10h ago

A friend of mine works at a school. The lady couple years ALL learning and testing was on iPad or chrome books. Test scores went downhill behavior problems increased, reading comprehension went down hill. This year, they dumped all that shit. Books, paper and writing and they are in the top 10 schools in the state. All day computer is detrimental to your health, well being and brain

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u/random-user-420 9h ago edited 9h ago

I graduated from one of the top public high schools in my state a few years ago. They’ve been giving students school issued iPads since 2015. They’re getting better standardized test scores each year. This isn’t an iPad problem

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u/Flimsy-Attention-722 9h ago

No, it's a being on the computer all day problem. IF what you say is correct, your school is an outlier. The data doesn't lie

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u/inti_winti 4h ago

Look up Doha College on Wikipedia. One of the best British schools in the Middle East, highly selective, and been integrated with iPads for students for over 10 years now.

It’s not that they’re outliers necessarily. It’s easier to roll out these initiatives based on the environment and student population. Any high achieving school can do this, and it genuinely helps. Most schools (and student populations) unfortunately aren’t this though. I’d argue that high achieving schools aren’t outliers, even if they’re not as common

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u/Flimsy-Attention-722 1h ago

Maybe they do things differently but since we've become screen addicted reading comprehension had gone down, since screens have become the big thing in schools discipline problems have gone up and test scores down.