# Giving Laptops to Students: Does It Cause a Cognitive Decline in Students? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2026, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-laptops-to-students-does-it-cause-a-cognitive-decline-in-students/1027952 "2026-02-25T07:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-laptops-to-students-does-it-cause-a-cognitive-decline-in-students/1027952/37 "2026-02-28T22:15:45Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I disagree about graphic novels, but that’s for another thread I think this one covered it some? > [@Comics/Graphic Novels that Should Be Taught in High School](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-graphic-novels-that-should-be-taught-in-high-school/1022813): > > There’s another thread about “[Books that should have been read in high school](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-should-have-been-read-in-high-school/1022741/97)” elsewhere in Cafe Society. The thread went a little off the rails when someone suggested MAUS, and I’ve got mixed feelings about that one. (It’s undeniably great comics, maybe the best graphic novel to date. But using it as a resource for a history class about the Holocaust is almost as problematic as using Gone With the Wind for a lesson about the Civil War, its causes and its immediate aftermath. GWTW would be a gre… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-laptops-to-students-does-it-cause-a-cognitive-decline-in-students/1027952)._