I recall referencing things like the Maine one-to-one laptop program quite a bit when it was first launched. What has happened to initiatives like that? They seem less necessary now that it seems like almost everyone has their own computing device - but we've also learned during the pandemic that this is nowhere near the case. The problem was, he writes, that surveys could not establish that students using laptops led to higher academic achievement. So much depended on how the teachers used them. "Separating the teacher from the technology, then, is illogical and, in a word, goofy." So what happened to the initiatives? They're still out there, but nobody pays attention. "An earlier generation of boosters for 1:1 had plowed the ground thoroughly for a later generation to see laptops and tablets as common as paper and pencil." Except, that is, when they don't have them.
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