"There’s clear scientific evidence that digital tools impair rather than enhance student learning”.
The words of a hidebound traditionalist? On the contrary, this is the recent finding of one of the world’s foremost medical universities, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, just one of many emerging reports pointing to the shallow and inferior nature of digital learning.
Evidence that books, paper and pens are more effective learning tools than screens and tablets is reverberating globally, with several countries including China dramatically backtracking on tech in the classroom and strongly promoting traditional methods of learning such as handwriting, reading books and face to face pupil-teacher interaction.
What about here in Britain? A YouGov survey of teachers in England and Wales estimates a record two million children are behind in talking and understanding words.
