nixCraft 🐧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/
Muiris@nixCraft I actually worked in an EdTech startup 10 years ago. Even my company recommended using screens for learning for a maximum time of just 20 mins per day, just 2 days per week. Their ethos was that it was the teacher’s job to teach, in the old fashioned way on a board, that screens should never replace that. EdTech should only be used to as tool to help teachers and students, not a way for education systems to cut costs and reduce the role of teachers.