Let the schools make rules, just like they do for a thousand other things.

If you make it a “public policy” issue, it will become another partisan football for the authoritarians among us to create drama about.

I find an eink tablet with no browser or a digitizing pen good for taking notes in this tech era.

Weelll....

I did that, and I use my Remarkable 2 mostly for reading epub novels and even leave the pen at home by now... :(

Okay, knowing myself I never thought I would use it much for creative work to begin with (and I was right).

I still think I did my best programming and learning about computers when I did not actually own one. East Germany, 1980s, I was in school. All programming happened with my head and paper,

oh no.

do you have a case so it's convenient to have the pen with you?

I got the cheap standard case of the very first iteration (I was an original pre-order customer for the RM 2), not expecting to carry it around much (I was working from home most of the time anyway). I have to stick the pen somewhere else in the bag.

I just looked, they don't even have that cheap model anymore.

yeah I have something like https://a.co/d/3JUuMjd so the pens harder to lose

I imagine when books became available, there were people who complained that people no longer take the time to just contemplate anymore, they always have an excuse for having a book in their hands.

> For the purposes of public policy (where schools are concerned), or even holding a meeting at work, what should be the best recourse?

teach them to use it. it's a tool. teach them how marketing works. teach them how susceptible to misinformation the human mind is. teach them how companies behave as if they are only beholden to shareholder profit and how said companies sell them fast food, sugar, porn and yes, engagement for profit.

the psychological weaknesses of the human mind have been well documented for over a hundred years, and yet the only people we teach that stuff to is marketing students. why is that?