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I suppose if you gave me a book AND a rubik's cube or <insert your childhood favorite time waster here>, you'd have a problem with my attention span on the book. Unless I was VERY interested in the book.
I don't think there is a "transience of information" issue at play. There is PLAY at play. You can do so many fun things with a tablet....most of any of them more fun than reading school texts for many kids.
Apple/Google have a long way to go in implementing some kind of "school mode" that would restrict a device to "desired use cases only" for "desire time periods" such that their "device of endless entertainment" could more effectively be a learning tool.
Mind you....I wasted PLENTY of time and found endless ways to be distracted when I was going to school back in the stone ages.
Give me an iPad back then, and a computer with access to the internet....I'd have had marketable skills before graduating high school. I liked to learn even as a child. I'd have read a LOT of books on an iPad.
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