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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents (fortune.com)
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I don't think it's necessarily the text books that are the issue but rather the physical act of writing your own notes.

I think it's that now people type all their notes into a laptop rather than write it down.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Yeah, makes sense. I "solved" that issue by still doing handwritten notes but then scanning them and converting them to digital notes afterwards.

    That being said, I grew up in the 90s so I was never deprived of the skill of handwriting as a kid. It wasn't until apple made touchscreens popular that shit kinda went downhill

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