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The laptops should be a tool, in addition to other tools. Being well rounded is the best thing you can be.
Yeah, my 8-year-old has the chrome book, but also gets physical homework, paper and pencil. Dunno how it'll be as she gets older, but I like how it is so far.
I was thinking about trying to find Mavis Beacon and somehow getting it to function on Windows 11. No idea if there's compatible versions. But I used Mavis Beacon all the time growing up and enjoyed the games, made learning to type (properly) fun.
It's weird that we don't consider the mass production of cheap paper and quality pens/pencils a technology.
I'm not going to become an Evangelical for Ctrl+F because I don't think it's worth the fight.
But I will say an analog classroom with 8 students taught by a professional teacher five days a week is vastly superior to an analog classroom with 40 students taught by a TA three days a week.
Do with that what you will.