Der Lehrer der Washburn High School holte Technik aus dem Klassenzimmer. Die Schüler nennen es einen Erfolg: Zu Beginn des Schuljahres gaben 46 % der Schüler an, Vertrauen in ihre Lesefähigkeiten zu haben. Im Februar lag sie bei 96 %.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/washburn-high-school-teacher-took-tech-out-of-the-classroom-students-call-it-a-success/89-1bad3ae3-4b6c-4b93-bc2e-5e7965a840cf
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* Teaching in 2026 comes with all kinds of distractions.
* So at the beginning of the school year at Washburn High School in south Minneapolis, Maureen Mulvaney took the technology and left it at the door.
>“I was frustrated. I’m battling, all the time, plagiarism. I’m battling the phones and I’m battling the computers. The kids are gaming, they’re shopping, they’re engaging in social media instead of engaging with each other and with me,“ Mulvaney said. „I thought, let’s just see if we can go back to what it was.“
* **Mulvaney, an AP Literature and English teacher**, told her five sophomore classes at the beginning of the year that they would be going back to the basics.
* **No phones. No Chromebooks. Just a pencil and paper.**
* „I sent out an email to parents saying, ‚Here’s what I wanna do.‘ And they replied, ‚What do you need?‘ **And I said paper. I got so much paper**. I had stacks,“ Mulvaney.
* **While some students were hesitant and feared they would fall behind and not be prepared for college, Mulvaney assured them it was only one hour of their school day.**
Hmm okay, the no phones and Chromebook. I get why but you have to see the pros and cons, the only reason really that pbones been usually allowed was to contact your family in case of a emergency. I get as I did it myself slack off from classes on my phone but it also helped me. Same with the Chromebook, it can help in many ways like a slide show, maybe your doing graphic design? But like the phone there are the downsides as well.
This is the way English should be taught. It’s common sense.
did their results even improve tho? a survey on the ‚vibe‘ of it doesnt really prove anything.
It’s all in how you use it. I work in education and yes it’s overused in some ways and in some ways is used as a crutch but it’s also alarming how uncomfortable staff are with devices outside of basically opening an app they went to a training on.
I don’t really get reading on devices instead of just having a class set of books. I 100% get activity and project and interactive use.
I’m just referencing one part because of something I read recently:
>Omar also said writing with a pencil was more calming than typing.
>“On a Chromebook, I might be tempted to maybe look something up, find a definition of something. But when I’m on paper, I feel like I can use my writing for me,“ Omar said.
When I was in college, I wrote my notes by hand, then I would always type them out when I was studying for a test:) In my mind it was the typing that helped me to retain my memory, but (and I also studied before I went to sleep which really helps as most of you probably know) and I may have known this before, but my handwriting is HORRIBLE so I always type, **but writing by hand is much, much better:**
>Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Your Brain: Enhancing brain connectivity and supporting emotional health. SOURCE: [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-media/202403/writing-by-hand-can-boost-brain-connectivity](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-media/202403/writing-by-hand-can-boost-brain-connectivity)
How hard is it to implement an mdm for the Chromebooks? Just whitelist the stuff you want them to read and block everything else
Her class must be exceptionally well-behaved and prepared already.
Even the best students in any of the 14 local high schools would literally drop the class if the teacher said no tech. There would be no homework done, there would be no notes taken.
These are students who were caught trying to use smart glasses and AI on cell phones on the AP tests.
That class, was going to do well regardless of tech or no tech.
This is a good reminder that sustained focus is a skill that needs practice, not a side effect of removing distractions. The AP Lit results track with what we know about deep reading and retention – a 10-minute daily practice likely builds the stamina for longer sessions over time.
Every time I hear AI is going to replace teachers, I look at these studies.
I’ve been teaching 28 years and don’t see it being a practical or useful replacement idea.
students went from writing half a page to six or seven pages. then they had to stop the experiment because the ap test is on a computer
AP classes are full of kids who do what you tell them. A charismatic teacher can make them eat bowls of shit, and they would like it.
They will be fucked when they get to college.
There is no article after clicking on the link, just the headline.
For a video link, check the YouTube video instead:
– https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrg6Qa5Z7Uw
Yes. More of this!
Tech bros in shambles.
The school administrators don’t want to hear it.
For my bachelor’s degree I had to write & defend a senior thesis. I wrote the draft version of every chapter & revision of that 76-page monster by pencil on paper in 2014. For my master’s degree, in 2020, I had to write & defend yet another thesis. Again, I wrote the draft version of every chapter & revision of that 78-page monster by pencil on paper.
This isn’t an attempt to brag (I still have phantom hand cramps & scars from the friction blisters that ended up with nasty infections at multiple points during the process). This is just me screaming into the void that those thrice-cursed papers wouldn’t have been half as decent as they ended up without the literal binders upon binders of handwritten notes I wrote while researching. The PPTs I made from those notes would’ve been garbage & my oral presentations travesties had I not practically tattooed my research into my brain during the process of handwriting first my notes & then my actual theses.
Typing doesn’t engage the same areas of the brain as handwriting. Whether a student uses pencil/pen + paper or stylus + tablet, as long as they WRITE BY HAND they’ll engage the right parts of the brain they need for learning & memory retention.
Technology is a tool to assist and supplement the base of knowledge you already have. If you dont establish or have that base, the technology will not help much and will end up becoming your base. That base isnt solid, and isnt often reliable in the real world. Tech should supplement learning, not be required for it, especially early in the learning process.
Computers need to go back to the computer lab.
Make believe.
The internet is the single most place that encourages you to increase your literacy rate.
Not surprised that removing it makes people more confident, its what ignorance always does to people.
Good start. Now blackboards and chalk for the kids scratch work. For finished work the quill pen and ink.
Interestingly enough, that teacher’s cousin is Mick Mulvaney former White House chief of staff under Trump
This demonstrates that technology often acts as a System 1 crutch rather than a System 2 enhancer. By removing screens, we force students to rebuild the deep, sequential neural pathways required for analytical reading. It’s a powerful reminder that cognitive friction is a feature of learning, not a bug.
This isn’t isolated. There are more and more instances showing the introduction to tech in the schools have been more detrimental than helpful.
Cause the Internet ruins everything, lol.
I feel crazy and vindicated. Like this should have been a „duuhhhh“ moment. But hey, glad to see it proven.
We had education figured out.
Why laptops and tablets became default teaching tools is beyond me