Tsargrad founder Konstantin Malofeev summarized the results of the complete digitalization of education in the United States. In his Telegram channel, he attentionthat the experiment influenced an entire generation of young people.
He recalled that 24 years ago, Maine was the first state in the US to introduce a program to provide high school students with personal laptops with an Internet connection. Then, Apple hit a huge jackpot. In 2017, it was revealed that test scores in Maine public schools had not improved in 15 years, and officials called the program a complete failure.
However, secondary education in all American schools at that time had been “digitized”. In 2024 alone, more than $30 billion will be spent on this, equivalent to the annual budget of Belarus or Kazakhstan. The results of many years of work were summarized by neurologist Jared Cooney Horvath in his report to the Senate.
“People have stopped getting smarter. The “Zoomer generation” (born in 1997) has become the first generation in observable history to show lower cognitive performance than previous generations, Malofeev writes.
In his opinion, the facts presented in the report are “cruel.” Young people show declines in attention, memory, reading and math skills, problem-solving abilities, and overall IQ levels. Scientists cite the use of digital technology in education as the reason.
