Comment by ben7799

One aspect to this IMO is the difference in maturity between pencils and paper + books and chromebooks/ipads with software.

Pencil/Paper/Book is extremely mature and the teaching system knows how to use it extremely well. The tools just work and don't distract from learning.

My kid has a Chromebook + Google classroom and it's just a distracting mess of poor hardware and horrific software. Just bad all around the teachers even say it wastes a ton of their time.

Anyone working in tech has a skewed view because we always have excellent hardware and software because of the amount of money the industry has and the way the industry knows that spending on tools pays back in a huge way. None of that applies to schools.

It blows me away that my son got a 2024 Chromebook and the screen is about what I had on my work laptop 20 years ago. But 20 years ago all the software was designed to work on a screen that was sub-1080p, today all the Google software seems to be designed for a 27" 4k screen.