Texas lawmakers plan to look at 'tech-ed' in the classrooms, citing what is going on in Sweden, where back in 2009 they went -all in- on laptops, tablets, and computers. Now they are spending $120 million to get rid of them, and bring back textbooks.
"Taxpayer funded devices, they adopted it first and realized that exactly what they thought would not happen, education outcomes went down is what occurred" said David Dunmoyer, Vice President with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Big tech is robbing kids of their ability to learn."
And sadly, the exact same thing is happening here in Texas, and the time has come to address it.
"From a taxpayer perspective, we in Texas are quite literally subsidizing big-tech" Dunmoyer told KTRH, "Students learn better when they're reading a book, and writing using a pen and pencil."
In other words, 'tech' doesn't always teach.
"We need to know the answer, are Google tablets in the classroom helping kids learn?" noted Dunmoyer, "Our research says no."
Their research also found that here in Texas, 1 in 3 teenagers have viewed pornography during school hours.
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