Re:Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
by const_cast on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @03:55PM
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I agree 100%. From what I've personally seen, I think younger people are actually becoming less versed in computers. There was a brief moment in time in which:
1. Most people had access to computers.
2. Computers were difficult to use and required building skills.
2 is no longer true anymore, so those skills are getting lost. Try asking a 15 year old what a filesystem is.
So it's not that phones are easy enough to use that you don't need to teach them; it's that the thing you want to teach is the power of a general purpose computer, and phones try very hard to hide the fact that they are extremely powerful general purpose computers. You need to learn on a real computer to know what you even want the phone to be able to do.