Gerard Elwood

The cycle of inequality in education.

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Did you use devices in school?

The subject of the article is actually drawing upon decades of international evidence.

Happy to read your evidence about it being 'great' in Scotland.

Horvath is pro‑learning rather than anti‑technology and his argument here is grounded in decades of evidence, drawing on international assessments, meta‑analysis and cognitive science.

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Horvath is pro‑learning rather than anti‑technology and his argument here is grounded in decades of evidence, drawing on international assessments, meta‑analysis and cognitive science.

I messaged you, Stephen.

You are entitled to your views.

Have a good one, too.

Cognitive science supports this, too.

Sadly, I have witnessed it. They are using most of the tools available in school Google Workspace school accounts on tablets and Chromebooks.

I mean teachers sometimes resort to using them as the main teaching and learning resource in the classroom.

Furthermore, the shift from handwriting to typing for note-taking bypasses critical neurobiological pathways; manual writing requires a graphic gesture that creates unique sensorimotor memory traces in the brain, facilitating deeper information encoding and superior recall.

They're also used as a learning aid.

This decline is primarily driven by the increased cognitive load of digital navigation, such as scrolling, which lacks the stable spatial anchoring and mental mapping provided by three-dimensional books.

The transition from physical textbooks to digital screens often results in a screen inferiority effect, characterised by lower reading comprehension and retention compared to print materials.

The article signposts the evidence used to support the claims. It also speaks about education technology in general, not just Chromebooks.

I don't believe causation was the claim in the article itself. Hovrath speaks about 'correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores.'

How much proof do you think is required to claim education tools should be used to align with the science of learning?

There is more than one study referenced in the article, there are signposts to decades of neuroscience and education research and books in the article.

Perhaps you can signpost to counter evidence to help inform the conclusions drawn from decades of work.

As mentioned in the piece, 'it is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works, I would suggest tech + non-digital text.

I shared the study/report.
I'll happily read and share your study (or any other) that robustly challenges this.
I didn't write a headline. I shared the title of the article & a quote from the report.
How much proof is required to claim ed tools should be used to align with the science of learning?