Technology

Since when? Pornhub's homepage is full of similar videos.

Remember when he tweeted out a pornhub video

Right, and he thinks that this could interfere with access to alternatives.

If you don’t understand how, I’m happy to explain.

Polite society stopped allowing for said types to receive a hearty fist to the face, which seems to have historically been the prescribed course of action

Misery loves company, and these are very miserable, angry, hateful people. If they can't be happy, no one can.

Because an angry and stupid population votes GOP.

That's what tv is for

They should be using tablets. Wax tablets. It was good enough for my great-to-the-nth-grandfather, so it's good enough for kids today.

Please. Paper is modern nonsense and I won't have our society polluted by it. Papyrus or stone tablets only.

let alone being required to use them for schoolwork.

I was born in 1991. In elementary school I had assignments that required a computer. This is not new.

He is literally, outloud, complaining that the reason is because maybe kids who are unsupervised and have access to things are somehow going to have less access(??) to conservative viewpoints. The society he’s so afraid of creating is one where he cannot control children’s access to filtered, conservative-biased media, and since pretty much every conservative talking point is a lie, exaggeration, or manipulated perspective they desperately need to be in control of the flow of information. They’re literally banning paper books, bro.

Also this is about hotspot use being expanded outside of schools(“off-premises”), but if that comment is your take then maybe reading comprehension isn’t your thing. Guess those paper textbooks didn’t really do anything to help you, either.

(Literally in the first line it explains that the intention is to help kids without reliable internet get their homework done. He just hates poor people, big surprise.)

Technology is going to be a part of every kids future (if they have one...) and should be taught with the other things they need to learn to be functional and successful.

There are other ways to limit social media access, and wccessnto other unproductive media. Use school sanctioned devices for work. Hire proper IT folk to lock down the equipment. But that would require funding for schools to be adequate.

This is a complex issue. You are over simplifying it.

Not sure if sarcastic, but if serious, this is a completely idiotic take. I have three kids of school age and I really can't see a reason for this.

Yeah! And what about these libraries? Lids are just able to go and find stuff on shelves and learn things that aren't filtered through my personal opinions?

What kind of society are we creating?

I hope you don't breed.

And that's how we end up with young adults entering the work force that can't

• type
• navigate the web safely
• save something to a specified directory
• transfer a file
• maintain backups
• recognize suspisous websites/news/ads
• navigate the constantly changing Microsoft UIs
• troubleshoot anything as simple as turning on the computer screen

The world is different than it was 30 years ago, if we don't prepare them for the internet age, then they will fail.

I do agree, physical books and learning off-screen is very important. Letting kids use the open web all day is not helpful, but bring them the computer lab to teach them the productive uses of a computer.

Ok boomer

While I enjoyed having paper textbooks in school (until I got to college and they were $300+ each), when was the last time you seriously used a paper textbook to learn something new? In this day and age we have Google/Bing/Kagi and you’re going to search for the thing you need to know, pull up Wikipedia, read a few blog posts or the documentation from the project itself, and then apply what you learned.

We’re teaching children how better to survive in today’s world, not teaching them how to survive in our grandfathers world.

Now, my kid has read a few physical paperbacks for her high school English class, and reads plenty of physical books when she gets them from the library or buys them, but classwork is online, instruction is in person, and she seems to be doing just fine not carrying around 20lbs of paper every day. If anything I’d say her note taking has improved more than mine did when I assumed I could simply just open the book back up. This is the world we live in and she’s being taught how to survive in it.

How do you expect them do assignments like papers, by typewriter? No, I suppose that's a device too, so hand-written only. Truly, this will equip them to be functioning adults!

then GTFO the Internet and go parent your kids you dingbat extremist

Back in my day, we just mix drinking water and waste water, we ain't got no medicine, you get infected you die. Pffff kids these days and their "technology"...

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Or the sun, a more appropriate vacation place to send Cruz.

It's simple really. People vote on culture war issues, and respect posture more than reason, we are a weak species that is easily manipulated, moreso when you gut education.

And he's actually a Canadian LARPing as an American citizen.