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Re:Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? by jimbokun on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:06AM (#15227350)
A documentary I watched claimed giving laptops or iPads to students is correlated with worse academic performance for those students.

Sorry, don't remember enough for a citation, but the suggested causal effect was students just spending even more time on social media, games, and web surfing instead of school work.

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Re:Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions? by posterboy on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:13AM (#15236169)
i'd oppose that. For one that's disingenious given the parent argument, that about scandinavian countries leading (by some measure) in school education and them using computers in class.

And on the other hand, what if the test subjects you mentioned just didn't learn to use the technology responsibly? I'd argue, teachers and professors need to be given computers, in a metaphorical sense, first.

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