Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools cellphone-free throughout the country https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/
Subjectively, I feel like I learn better with books, and writing stuff down with a pencil. I'm old, so it could be bias, but tech is distracting to me in all the wrong ways. I'm very comfortable with it. It just feels like an abstraction layer that gets in the way of learning.
