In 2002, Maine became the first state to implement a statewide laptop program to some grade levels. Then-governor Angus King saw the program as a way to put the internet at the fingertips of more children, who would be able to immerse themselves in information.

By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools. By 2016, those numbers had multiplied to 66,000 laptops and tablets distributed to Maine students.

King’s initial efforts have been mirrored across the country. In 2024, the U.S. spent more than $30 billion putting laptops and tablets in schools. But more than a quarter-century and numerous evolving models of technology later, psychologists and learning experts see a different outcome than the one King intended. Rather than empowering the generation with access to more knowledge, the technology had the opposite effect.

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    20 hours ago

    I don’t need a neuroscientist to tell me Gen Z are a bunch of dumbasses.

    You can either look at instagram and tictok or look at who votes for the DSA.

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      4 hours ago

      So, any comments on the followers of morons like Fuentes and Tate who are in their teens and 20s? Oh, guess they’re totally not a bunch of dumbasses. Super smart rational people just doing some looksmaxxing.

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      Lol “who votes for the DSA”

      Your Democratic party just blocked a move to stop giving more money to Israel. Had years after first trump presidency to release Epstein files. Didn’t.

      It is the controlled opposition party. It answers to suits just like republicans do. They just dangle the carrot a little closer.

      Its either, Democratic party, Republican party, or DSA which is the ONLY other party that has a shot right now and its only if it gets enough momentum.

      I already know what Republicans and Democrats are about from years of seeing them get things to where they are right now

      I am nowhere close to Gen Z by the way.