A new UN report raised concerns on Wednesday about the excessive use of smartphones, calling for them to be banned in schools worldwide. According to the UN's education, science and culture agency UNESCO, the over-use of mobile phones impacts learning.
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Do you guys still play block dude on the Texas Instruments calculators?
I used to play tanks and snake
Oh, Block Dude. There is a blast from the past. Modern TI calculators can run emulators. What a time to be alive.
We don’t have those kind of calculators in the schools here. I just do the old-fashioned “input random sums and see what the calculator says”.