In my country we still use textbooks. Its true that carrying just one laptop its easier but kids must also learn how to write and read on a real paper. I personally think that Introducing too much screens and technology in schools is a mistake. It comes at the expanse of handwriting and it risks to cause addition problems. Then, companies like Google does not really respect privacy rights of their users and this is one reason more for me to not make my kids stay away from them.
This doesn't mean that they shouldn't teach how to use technology at school. It must be done in a way to make kids aware of how a computer/smartphone really works.
I think that its also important to cancel the data available on search engines in order to complete this process. Remember that your social network profiles are often visible on the internet and this is very valuable data for corporations and AI companies.
Nothwistanding this, I am also trying to not put any of my data online if it is not really needed. For exanple, I prefer to store my files on usb sticks instead of cloud services.
I found a game called Dark Cloud in one of these demo disks. Still today is one of my favorite games. Unfortunately is not very known due to bad marketing.
It depends a lot by the style and the trainer. I was training Go-Ju style Karate for 9 years and had a positive experience, while I had a negative one with a different style years before. All martial arts has a lot of different styles that can be very different between them.
In my opinion the important thing is to find a school that doesn't have too much people and where she can be actively followed by the trainer.
Then, it also depends if you are looking for a sport/competitive experience or something more traditional. In my case we were training it as a martial art and went rarely to competitions.
In my country we still use textbooks. Its true that carrying just one laptop its easier but kids must also learn how to write and read on a real paper. I personally think that Introducing too much screens and technology in schools is a mistake. It comes at the expanse of handwriting and it risks to cause addition problems. Then, companies like Google does not really respect privacy rights of their users and this is one reason more for me to not make my kids stay away from them.
This doesn't mean that they shouldn't teach how to use technology at school. It must be done in a way to make kids aware of how a computer/smartphone really works.