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Originally Posted by david_e
Perhaps, if they were engaged in a manner they are familiar with and enjoy using, those basic subjects wouldn't be such a struggle.
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The thing is, the educational establishmennt has been experimenting with all sorts of techie manners that "are familiar, etc" for decades with zero long-term gains to show for the billions of bucks thrown at the problem.
In the meantime, there is a whole range of schools that teach basics through the old-fashioned engagement method of human to human interaction, with measurable effectiveness.
I'd be more sympathetic to the educational use of tech toys in *public* schools if those same schools weren't constantly decrying the need for more money to hire more teachers and if the ratio of supervisors to actual educators were lower.