Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores

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[unshavenyak]

I use an Onyx Boox, an older Tab Ultra. Mine is B&W, as i just prefer it to color eink.

I use the built-in notes app, but OneNote also works with basically no writing latency.

The app has folders (or binders, or whatever), and then notes. You can set a ToC per note. There is some linking ability, but my process just doesn't really call for it and i don't bother.

You can apply templates by default to a while note, but i believe also set per-page. I'd have to check when I get home.

Mine is B&W, but the colors are technically present. I just use a highlight, thin "pen" for most text, and a thick "pen" for headings and the like.

You can use PDFs and some graphics format (PNG, maybe?) as templates in addition to the stock ones. E.g. I added a D&D character sheet, write permanent info on one layer, then dynamic into on a second. Like base stats on layer 1, and buffed stats on 2.

Thanks for the suggestions. I caved and picked-up a refurbished Scribe 16 GB for € 180. We'll see if I hang on to it or not.

 

[graylshaped]

Over the course of my career 11 to 15 year olds, a mix of high needs initially, very advanced now.

Then you know there is not a one-size fits all answer, and this entire conversation is stunningly reductive.

 

[Torbjörn Larsson OM]

People go with anecdotes and emotions, but there is an empirical and unanswered issue here. Sweden's educational policies are not rigorously evidence based and either educational material may be useful. Recent change in scores doesn't say much, national scores are hard to compare with other nations and over time against an educational landscape with ever lesser resources and larger classes.

 

[PermanentDonut]

Whether the US will follow Sweden’s path remains to be seen. Naomi Baron, a professor emerita of linguistics at American University, told Undark she doesn’t see the US turning to Sweden for advice. This is in part because of financial incentives

Oh, America. You really are an awful place. What a journey it has been over the last few decades to watch your fall from grace.

 

[Scary Devil Monastery]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/07/swe...s-changed-radically-over-the-last-decade.html

Not sure if CNBC is good enough as a source, but there are many others available.
I don't remember the details about how, but in Sweden they are working to avoid having too many foreigners living in the same area, creating the conditions for 'poor safety'

The details are what is important.

Sweden has a good legacy to lean on but it is true that we've dropped the ball lately.
To whit, to be a clerk in the office of immigration is a fairly dull and thankless job and government jobs are often much less desirable than ones in the private sector - so mainly two types of people willingly seek such employment. The idealist eager to do their best to help fleeing refugees find a new life...and racists, eager to keep the foreigner outside.
The latter are unfortunately more common.

Combined with a body politic which has been continually surprised every time some upheaval in the world causes a spike of refugees to come our way a number of bad decisions was made early on, leading to the inability to properly integrate the new arrivals and a penchant to bundle them in cohesive communities simply based on bad logistics.
And this is not a good thing since the absolutely best way to teach someone to be a citizen in a new country is to make them part of a community of that country. Which we managed to do when Persians fled to our shores from first the young shah and later on, Khomeini. We've got a lot of successful persians in politics and business as a result.

We completely dropped the ball on some later waves.

In the last few decades the issue of integration was also exacerbated by our right-wing deciding that the private sector had to be better at everything, including education, and so education intended to teach newcomers what Sweden is, the language, culture and values and so on all fell into the hands of grifters who got paid for every student they managed to keep as long as possible, leading to newcomers being forced to undertake for three bloody years what speed-classes on Swedish in dog damn Poland can accomplish in three weeks.
With newcomers often being left ignorant, bewildered, and without a sense of belonging or welcome, they've in many cases become easy prey for the same old political, religious, and/or criminal rhetoric they once fled from.

This is what happens when an otherwise fairly decent nation lets go of important functions to the point where the absolutely worst people with an agenda get to be the ones in charge of the bureaucratic implementation of those functions.

 

[Scary Devil Monastery]

Read Adam Smith!

You're supposed to use the Invisible Hand for Caps Lock?