Education & Learning
More Screen Time in Schools Directly Correlates With Worse Learning Outcomes
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"We’re Regressing Into The Unknown" - Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
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"We've got data out the wazoo that shows the more time kids spend on tech at school for learning purposes, the more learning goes down. And it's basically linear. Kids who are using it 6 hours a day, basically all online, are two-thirds of a standard deviation worse on average than kids who don't touch tech ever at school."
Horvath cited comprehensive international data showing a linear relationship between classroom screen time and declining academic performance. Students using technology six hours daily score two-thirds of a standard deviation below students with zero tech use, contradicting the $21 billion spent on educational technology infrastructure with no evidence of benefit.
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- "We’re Regressing Into The Unknown" - Dr Jared Cooney Horvath
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