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345. 12 Ways the Planet Could Truly Be Saved | Bjørn Lomborg

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Cost of Computers in Primary School

computers are unbelievably good when they're used properly at finding that zone of proximal development. For necessities like basic atomatization, say of letter recognition, computers are unbeatable because they can do repeated mass practice in a way that would drive any adults to raving math. Malawi for instance, a country that we worked in where we pointed this out as a very, very good intervention is now actually setting up this for the entire primary school system. So yeah, again, these are things that we can do. We estimate that there's about 467 million kids in primary school today in the poor half of the world. That's all.

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