just a little guy

Gimmie Eridians who are absolutely heartbroken to hear that humans where so desperate and so scared that they where willing to part with not just one Grace, there were three of them! Gimmie Eridians touched to find that the humans planned a way for their sacrifices to be as comfortable as possible. Gimmie Eridians who send earth a message saying “We know it must have hurt to send your heroes to die, but one made it and he’s safe here. We lost 22 good Eridians on the journey we would have lost 23 if not for your Grace.”

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Plus Googlebooks are rolled out not for kids to learn about computers, but as devices for them to look at curriculum materials, access class shared Drive folders (maybe??) and take standardized tests.

You might as well give them a filmstrip viewer and Scantron bubble sheets to fill in, then expect them to have learned how the cassette tape makes the filmstrip advance.

We really haven’t interrogated the role of technology in the classroom.

By some studies, historically, general cognitive ability and reading comprehension have declined since the introduction of classroom tech, in parallel with the dreaded Standardized Testing, and it’s a combination of bad pedagogical design, a lack of understanding of neurology and human behavior, overhyped fear, and corporate greed.