Welcome to Beyond Euclid #217, the newsletter for the best mathematics and science stuff of the week. I am Ali, and I curate cool math and science stuff every week to help you have a better week.
Sweden is stepping back from its push to digitize schools:
I wish some schools would study the use of e-ink readers, particularly as they now come with colour screens. They are not suitable for videos, and can be loaded with proprietary OS to keep kids off the internet. No more 20 kg backpacks and the ability to share text within teams, etc.
Ha, been there. I once spent months trying to convince my school administration to get 5 Remarkable tablets for my AP Calculus AB students — notes, practice, collaboration, no lost papers. I was confident it would push every student to a 5 on the AP exam. They passed. Spent $20-30k sanitizing the entire building for Covid instead. The walls. The floors. Anyway — deep topic.
It seems the Washington Post article you referred to was too truthful, so the journal's leadership decided to disappear it. When I clicked on your hyperlink, I got the message "The page you are looking for can't be found." Just one of the reasons I prefer Substack over traditional media...
Unfortunately that's becoming more common — stories quietly disappearing without explanation. Archived version is up here if you'd like to read it: https://archive.md/0d2Ry — and I've updated the link in the newsletter as well.
Sweden is stepping back from its push to digitize schools:
I wish some schools would study the use of e-ink readers, particularly as they now come with colour screens. They are not suitable for videos, and can be loaded with proprietary OS to keep kids off the internet. No more 20 kg backpacks and the ability to share text within teams, etc.
Ha, been there. I once spent months trying to convince my school administration to get 5 Remarkable tablets for my AP Calculus AB students — notes, practice, collaboration, no lost papers. I was confident it would push every student to a 5 on the AP exam. They passed. Spent $20-30k sanitizing the entire building for Covid instead. The walls. The floors. Anyway — deep topic.
It seems the Washington Post article you referred to was too truthful, so the journal's leadership decided to disappear it. When I clicked on your hyperlink, I got the message "The page you are looking for can't be found." Just one of the reasons I prefer Substack over traditional media...
Unfortunately that's becoming more common — stories quietly disappearing without explanation. Archived version is up here if you'd like to read it: https://archive.md/0d2Ry — and I've updated the link in the newsletter as well.
Oh, thank you for sharing this link! This does look like a very interesting article!
Very nice read ..