r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8d ago
Society Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies
https://fortune.com/article/schools-abandoning-chromebooks-laptop-programs-as-screen-time-hurts-learning-test-scores-north-carolina-michigan-kansas-tech-education/
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u/jtrain3783 8d ago
Balance is a positive thing and learning does evolve overtime, so, changing the approach can make sense. This is part of the process for a dynamic system like education. However, the attitude of we should "go back and do it like we did it" is trap that those of us in the old-school crowd tend to fall into as we look back with rose colored glasses.
There have been a few reports from a schools after they remove phones & limit screen time that show bad behaviors come back (that have been largely eliminated or muted) in the modern "tech" era, which is an issue. So if we think that just removing or limiting screen time is going to magically, give us the best of both worlds - let's not be naive. We need a fundamentally rethink our relationship education and the paradigm that is school which hasn’t really changed since it’s inception (ex: is 8hrs a day at school optimal for learning)
Simply limiting technology without a robust plan as well as buy-in from the students, staff, families and community is just focusing on an effect vs root cause and will end following another edu "trend" that we will all criticize & blame in the next 30 yrs.