I would suspect that just examining the use of smartphones by the students is insufficient to explain the results, because it misses other critical factors. As the post alludes to, but doesn’t explore, the use of individual screens (laptops, tablets) in class must surely be important, not just if kids watch Tik Tok on them, but because gamified learning platforms emulate the social media experience by design. Furthermore, teachers nowadays rely on short videos to teach, replacing their natural spoken explanation with visual elements drawn on the blackboard. Finally, surely there must be an enormous impact that screen-addicted parents have on their children, which is completely ignored by these studies and (only instinctively) I’d say may dominate the effects completely. Only studying the whole picture will probably reveal how harmful this new world is to human knowledge, deep thought and critical thinking. Unfortunately designing studies to address this seems extremely challenging, but I think highly worth the effort.
And yet, here in the UK performance in public examinations at 16 and 18 continues to rise year on year. I suspect, though have no evidence, that this is because the bar is being gradually lowered.
A corollary of this is that if I were a school pupil that declined to have a smartphone I would gain a significant advantage over my peers.
where do children with disabilities fit into this picture? Many disabled children must have tech in the classroom in order to function on all levels of life. When is this going to be studied in Ernest and reported on?
Although the phones are gone - are the smartwatches gone? Is the Wi-Fi and dirty electricity gone, which irradiates the brain, which all disrupt calcium channels in the brain?
Until the electromagnetic environment is clean, learning will decline.
I would suspect that just examining the use of smartphones by the students is insufficient to explain the results, because it misses other critical factors. As the post alludes to, but doesn’t explore, the use of individual screens (laptops, tablets) in class must surely be important, not just if kids watch Tik Tok on them, but because gamified learning platforms emulate the social media experience by design. Furthermore, teachers nowadays rely on short videos to teach, replacing their natural spoken explanation with visual elements drawn on the blackboard. Finally, surely there must be an enormous impact that screen-addicted parents have on their children, which is completely ignored by these studies and (only instinctively) I’d say may dominate the effects completely. Only studying the whole picture will probably reveal how harmful this new world is to human knowledge, deep thought and critical thinking. Unfortunately designing studies to address this seems extremely challenging, but I think highly worth the effort.
And yet, here in the UK performance in public examinations at 16 and 18 continues to rise year on year. I suspect, though have no evidence, that this is because the bar is being gradually lowered.
A corollary of this is that if I were a school pupil that declined to have a smartphone I would gain a significant advantage over my peers.
where do children with disabilities fit into this picture? Many disabled children must have tech in the classroom in order to function on all levels of life. When is this going to be studied in Ernest and reported on?
You can’t use a cell phone when playing water polo.
Although the phones are gone - are the smartwatches gone? Is the Wi-Fi and dirty electricity gone, which irradiates the brain, which all disrupt calcium channels in the brain?
Until the electromagnetic environment is clean, learning will decline.