School will never be as interesting as a phone. Your teacher will never be as entertaining as an influencer. Your textbooks will never be as entertaining as your feed. What families and teenagers have to understand is that education is a choice. If you want to learn, you’ll probably have to put your phone down for long periods of time to actively listen and learn. It’s difficult. It tires you out. It’ll frustrate you. But you will eventually learn.

Then again - when I look at home prices and inflation, I understand young people’s feelings of futility.

Good luck young people. I’m really rooting for you to figure this out.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I look at home prices I know that school never has been good. People don't understand what they have to do to drive down prices.

Why can't Tiktok be used to find the best courses? There is no need for teachers to teach when Tiktok can do it better. Let teachers become mentors.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Tiktok cannot do it better. Tiktok is an app designed to hold attention. If you are more engaged by cat videos than geometry tiktok will not try and show you geometry

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Tiktok algorithm can be limited to educational videos. Of course this requires cooperation from Tiktok or the introduction of a new app.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

that would just be a new app and why would tiktok cooperate with that. There isn't as much money in that area and even if there was an educational app kids would go on tiktok instead of it

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