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> spellcheck is always on, why learn real spelling when the computer fixes it for you? The computer immediately shows spelling errors and corrections, TEACHING correct spelling. > The videos are more about funny jokes than the different phases of matter. ( youtube is a funny one. Non-there are many great youtube channels packed with scientific content, like Smarter Every Day, Veritasium, Mark Rober, CGP Grey, VSauce, engineerguy, Physics Girl, Captain Disillusion, Mathologer, Numberphile, ... > I don't want to have to sit next to them all night making sure that they are only doing 'productive' work. That's a parenting issue not a computer issue. Teach your kids what's allowed and what's not, and check their browser history until they learn how to manipulate it, then check your router logs The main problem with ed tech is the extremely low quality of the apps the schools buy and make the kids use, not the computers and youtube themselves. |
You could watch every video on every one of those channels and you might know a lot of random facts but it won't make you a physicist or a mathematician or a biologist.
>That's a parenting issue not a computer issue. Teach your kids what's allowed and what's not, and check their browser history until they learn how to manipulate it, then check your router logs
Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. There are things I saw on the internet as a child that I still cannot unsee. My parents having seen that I saw them afterwards would not have changed that.