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I’m glad he’s saying this. As an educator I can confirm that the effects of technology on the young generation has been positively catastrophic. The literacy crisis is not getting nearly enough attention for how serious of an issue it is, and it is caused in large part by technology
I'm impressed youre so confidently able to attribute it to technology, I gotta ask what's your testing method and metrics?
Seems to me economic factors would be a better guess, recession frequency is impressively high these days.
what is funny is the wealthy don't' let their kids use their technology and send them to schools that use less tech. Funny how that works.
There's a lot of data on this which suggests technology is to blame. This is a good overview.
Correlation isnt causation.
Im not suprised thats a gov testimony and not a respected publisbers paper, theres absolutely no attempt to acknowledge the existance of nor correct measurement error.
These sampling biases really matter to draw trends from long term data, you could write that same paper but replace 'EdTech' with climate change, and (technically) be eqully as correct.
Correlation isn’t causation, I agree, but the signal here is extremely strong (data from 71 countries is included in just one graph of that file I linked) and we seem to understand the mechanism that would cause screens to lead to poor learning outcomes (a breakdown in sustained attention).
That is false, because you’d have no comparison group. You can compare outcomes of kids with and without tech, but not kids with and without climate change.
The most idiotic things are done by adults and seniors. But it's done with confidence so that changes everything I guess. I'd even argue tech does not contribute in bad ways as I see myself young people are smart and good nowadays compared to adults
With respect, no one outside of education seems to understand how serious of an issue this is. This is not a “kids these days” thing. Grade 8s are now functioning at a grade 2 level and this is a systemic issue impacting every educator I know
Can confirm. My daughter is teaching.
Seems to be three problems. Admin rules , and spoon fed info from phones, and parents who don't understand how to reinforce learning.
Admin one is that they can't report how the child is doing via marks, nor can they say negative comments. So parents don't get any eye openers, and a failing child is passed to next grade anyway.
The children aren't able to grasp info from a story and repeat points they picked out, they always want it given to them. The phone gives them instant prepared info about anything in short time spans, so they don't want to put effort into any task. There also a few that ask for help with scissors because they find cutting paper a long task.
The parents aren't helping.
Children come back without homework done. And parents say its up to the teacher to force them to do their homework. Lol.
Parents sending in chatgpt lists of how the teacher can monitor the child's backpack and ensure they take home the work, book, and writing tools each day etc. The parents thinks it is acceptable to direct every action of the child to get results...which seems is why they can't think for themselves at all now.
This is where the problem starts. 30 yrs teaching at a tech post secondary. Ridiculous grade inflation to accommodate students' falling abilities. Spent waaaay more time than I should have dealing with plagiarism from internet sources. Many of my colleagues just gave up. Those kids are now parents.