Our Kids’ IQs Are Dropping. Is Big Tech to Blame?

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Homeschool!

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Yes.

Right answer; processed food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 😮

Schools shouldn't be profit centers for anything but big pencil.

The White House Regime needs to go and we need people that actually want to do things to help everyone. Not just the Billionaires and Corporations Using American Citizens Data should be illegal period. Its invasion of privacy. Make an app and see the data you collect.

It's pretty obvious that if you force kids to think less they'll be dumber.

Reliance on tech actually paralyzes my students' ability to think creatively. It's a shortcut to the 'right answer.' They cannot think things out any longer – they don't even try.

Just reading the title, absolutely not. When did we abandon accountability?

There is NO chromebooks or computers in russia's schoolclasses but there is a huge DROP in intelligence level of today's kids ASWELL!
They cant answer simple questions!

Yes

I wonder if attacking the Tech Companies is the wrong approach. The problem may reside in the experience of playing video games (at home). Is the video game where the quick changing screens is reducing the ability to maintain focus (they are focused but in a different way) with a very dynamic changing environment? Clearly the video game requires focus. Are the constraints of the classroom meeting the needs of the students? To me, the focus on the profits of the industry is the "quick and easy" straw man attack and leads to the simplest solution. This is what the politicians of the 20th century found so appealing and brought them into power, the simple solution. A symptom of the problem is the attachment to the video, to colors, and to rapid change. Looking at it in a different way, maybe it is like the Russian-Ukrainian war. With this situation, on one side we have the constrained tried and true path, on the other side is the need to innovate for survival. The innovation path is winning. Behind the scenes, the problem resides in the industrial culture that is tied to large corporations who provide all of the constrained path of learning materials. It is like the military industrial complex that knows how to build big weapon mechanisms. It is like the automobile companies who know how to build internal combustion cars. On the other hand are the innovators, who are battling to survive. So what has the education "system" learned from this experience? Considering the drop in scores, what is this telling us about the situation? Could it be the old way of doing things no longer works, or is it the change in the new way needs to be destroyed so the old way brings back the pre-computer environment? Remember rock-n-role, horse and buggy, the cuckoo clock, etc. We had the same arguments when it came to radio and then television. Children are watching too much of this new "entertainment" device. The innovation of EVs, the changes Ukraine is bringing about in the defense environment, all of these are showing how the old ways provide "resistance", slowing things down. The big corporate suppliers cannot innovate fast enough. Maybe we should go back to the rules of writing or entertainment. If you cannot hook your audience in the first x minutes, you have lost the opportunity. Is that why the children are going back so quickly to the game playing on the video devices? Are there better ways to educate? As Ukraine is doing, strip down the problem to its essentials, and remove anything that does not contribute to the solution. In the military industrial complex, as in automobile production, the committee builds an object that can perform multiple purposes. It takes years to develop such objects. Ukraine takes the experience of the battle field and innovates to a solution in just a few weeks. There are failures but they go back to the lab and innovate to find a better solution.

Yup. Keenan said it: "Ain't nothin gonna change."

Keep them stupid, keep them in fear, keep them poor, Keep control!

Smh

It’s just like the movie 2001 a space Odyssey the smart phone is the monolith and humans are the monkeys

Half of the children are not White, thats why

Of course, it takes away their imagination and creativity.

So called big tech is to blame

Yes. But the same we could say of cars. ADults are becoming lazy(and they pollute a lot and they don't care). so don't blame kids. And what about blaming big techs? This is demagogy.
We did this. Our parents did this. Our silence did this. What do your family and friends do to fight for a better economy? What Luigi did was good but not remotely enough. Even 1000 Luigis wouldn't be enough: BECAUSE billionaires are not the only ones to blame. It's our fault too. Oil companies are bad! Who buys their oil? Your friends! Have you ever told anything to them? The same with the government. They gave us democracy to control us but we made it easier: it's our fault if democracy nowadays means nothing; half of the population doesn't vote, half of who votes do it uninformed or disinterested. What do you do when your parents vote uninformed? What do you say to the friend who doesn't vote? What do you tell to the guy who comments saying "When the country was led by the left/right" without acknowledging that the system is corrupted and they will always be the same until the population will not care enough to fight. The same applies with everything. We know only to complain without doing anything concrete.
What taxing the billionaires even mean? Of course I wanna tax them more but I am not saying I disagree with that, I am saying that we are the problem, not only the billionaires. OIL COMPANIES ARE BAD!! GUESS WHO BUYS FROM THEM!? the same applies in every sector. This kind of sentences is just demagogy to get new followers that wanna feel validated in doing nothing but blaming billionaires. Taxing billionaires will not stop companies by polluting if your friends and family keeps buying new stuff any time they need anything or they use car every time they need to move just to feel free. We are the one to blame even if we don't do these things: because we are blaming billionaires instead of our friends and families that buy from those billionaires. Who likes this post is victim of propaganda no less then who thinks that JUST recycling will save anything. We gotta fight for BOTH. The same applies for everything! Tax the billionaires! Yes! And then? They'll go away. First of all we gotta make ONU stronger so that billionaires will have nowhere to hide their money.
Make less debt! Yes! But then we shall stop wanting always welfare and more important we shall stop glorifying unproductive soldiers that go to war just to benefit big corporates while wasting our military budget.
Remember that everything is up to us: start talking with your friends and family, make them outraged, start fighting.

Yes- kids are idiots