alt.hn

5/16/2026 at 11:33:08 PM

My Son's Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/homework-video-games-ed-tech/687198/

by tekdude

5/18/2026 at 2:24:56 AM

Pokémon is a pretty good game though.

by musicale

5/17/2026 at 1:45:30 AM

>The only time he slowed down, grudgingly, was when Prodigy forced him to watch videos advertising its paid-membership plans.

I've never understood why schools don't install a good adblocker extension like uBlock Origin through MDM on their devices. My school had some terrible, probably closed source adblocker, that didn't even work, and still got blocked/detected all the time by anti-adblock scripts. And it didn't even block most ads, you get to see the ads, and still be blocked by the anti-adblock.

by Cider9986

5/17/2026 at 2:15:25 AM

I appreciate the parental movement to ban technology in schools. Better they focus on that, which will actually be effective at preventing young people from accessing harmful content, rather then regulating identity for adults on the open web to help governments suppress dissent.

by Cider9986

5/17/2026 at 8:40:17 PM

teacher here...yall dont know the half of it or the fourth of it or the third of it lol. its like all of our curriculum is turning into these silly math or reading games from iready.

by marysminefnuf

5/17/2026 at 1:41:48 AM

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by Cider9986