For the past ten years, headlines have been proclaiming how students’ academic performance is nosediving.
The culprit?
Signs point clearly to the overuse of screens in school which ramped up at the same time as kids’ plummeting school performance.
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Technology Plan set out a lofty goal of replacing traditional learning tools (i.e. paper, pencils and books) with 1:1 technology devices. Fifteen years later, it did not create the powerful, engaging or personalized learning that was promised. Instead, student performance has steadily declined while the tech industry’s profits soar.
