“The idea of e-learning, that having an iPad is going to make learning easier, there’s good data again suggests that the introduction of iPads in schools and everyone is going to learn other laptops has actually decreased test scores. And we now know that one of the privileges of going to a private school is now that you’re much more likely to learn with a pen and a paper, and a teacher standing at the front of the class teaching you rather than on a screen.”

Listen to the preceding episode that informs this Q&A and then to the other series about the importance of reading that both of them refer to as well!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n8ynwz

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Radical with Amol Rajan - Can Technology Rescue Reading? (Your Radical Questions with James Marriott) - BBC Sounds

James Marriott takes questions on the gamification of learning and collapse of reading.

BBC

Meanwhile, in Sweden when the state sector goes the same way

“doubling down on analogue tools has drawn criticism from tech companies, educators and computer scientists, who argue it could impact pupils' employment prospects, and even damage the Nordic nation's economy.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0vk77vdko

I’m inclined to think that analogue teaching is better for everyone, not only for rich people!

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Back to books - Sweden's schools give up digital learning

Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

BBC News