What will it take for Education Strategists to focus on the Low Cost-High Impact area (reference to Rory Sutherland)? When will the enlightenment take place? A WSJ front page article titled “Schools’ Tech Push Meets Backlash” from the Wednesday September 4, 2019 issue storytells a significant instance of overpromise, underdeliver. A case of negative disruption and vague intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parents should question the value of pouring tech into education. Taxpayers in general should question it too. Another recent WSJ article (“Phones Buzz in Class\u2014With Texts From Mom and Dad,” September 6, 2019) discussed how cell phones are disruptive in the wrong way. The act of equipping each student with an iPad or similar device is a step in the wrong direction. Such devices exacerbate pre-existing problem conditions in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even in my university setting, I have a rule in my course syllabus where students have to stow their electronic devices during seminars because the devices are distractions to themselves, others in the audience and the speaker (accessible education students excepted). Using such devices during class time defeats the active listening and reciprocal learning channels that need to function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know as a parent that the required iPads in my children’s high school were a waste of money and impediment to learning. And think about the heavy burden of spam, junk email, fake this-and-that, gaming\/social network addiction, and theft that this brought along as luggage. Why expose students to these diseases while at school?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, there are some particular benefits to tech in education. Certainly have to admit that. And there is much potential if strategized in a specialized way. What if we took the current thinking of customized healthcare to education(care)? Perhaps students should only have access to and use a tech device for precision purposes? We need to be more mindful about what tech is doing to our young students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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