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

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.” ...

Gen Z Scores Lower on Standardized Tests Than Millennials, Despite More Tech — 'The Smarter They Think They Are, The Dumber They Actually Are'

Gen Z is the first generation to grow up with Wi-Fi in the classroom and a screen within arm's reach from kindergarten onward. Millennials, by contrast, remember overhead projectors, paper textbooks ...
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Gen Z — the first generation officially dubbed dumber than the last

Gen Z, this will smart. The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist. And ...