Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

Re:Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in... by mentalgear on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:48AM (#47613152)

~20 years later on all the "Digitalisation of Schools" brought us is waning attention spans for children but billions of sells to Big Tech for software, and e-devices that after a few years become electronic waste to be shipped to a poor country stripped for rare earths and finally ending in landfills in Africa or Asia to poison the ground water.

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Re:Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in... by gambiting on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:33AM (#47614270)

But think of all the shareholder value that was created, surely that makes it worth it /s

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Re:Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in... by zigman1 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:03AM (#47614658)

That's because our idea of "Digitalisation of Schools" is putting a textbook into pdf form, let student use a computer to open it and call it digitalisation.

I am somehow involved in this field and am yet to see an actual paradigm shift anywhere in Europe. Going back to books just mean that we will continue using old methods, because those same old methods moved onto screen didn't bring improvements we though they would as we labeled them digitalisation

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