Sweden reexamines the use of computers in schools | Focus on Europe
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2024
- Sweden has long been a pioneer in the digitization of educational practices. The Swedish Minister for Schools, Lotta Edholm, is adamant about bringing books and more classical teaching methods back into the classroom.
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I graduated highschool in America in 2010. Occasionally we would go to the computer lab, but still did all of our assignments with pencil and paper. I had no idea how much school has changed since then.
We can have 35-40 students to one teacher in a classroom in the US. Here it looks like about 15 students with 2 teachers. No wonder our public school are failing.
I'm no luddite, I'm a software engineer who loves technology but I will say screens are BAD for learning not because they emit light but because 99% of screens I've encountered since 2010 can play games, go online, browse arbitrary websites and basically allow you to be 100% unfocused. When I was in school textbooks kept you focused, perhaps you'd read the wrong page here and there but overall you'd be following the material you needed to understand. Computer class was the ONLY class I didn't focus in and instead spent it playing video and learning to program for my side business (valuable, but only because it was in computer class). I support a move away from screens for children.
I keep hearing teachers say they are quitting due to students' bad behavior, lack of attention, etc. Then the schools stick them in front of screens the whole day. Sounds like the kids (and the teachers) are being set up to fail.
"Now we have to read ourselves. Before the computer read the exercise for us". I think this tells you everything.
I hated it. It’s so much harder to learn on technology. It also makes kids more depressed,anxious and worse behavior.
As a former math instructor I know that a skill to manipulate symbols on paper is crucial for mathematics.
Smart. Technology should only be used when it's actually helpful.
Yes.... too much screen time in classrooms. Just because a student (or anyone) is staring at a computer screen does not mean they are engaged in any kind of learning or critical thinking. There is an addictive element to the overuse of screens.
whoever made the decision to use laptops to teach math was never a math teacher or didn't know any math.
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Our kids grew up with textbooks and workbooks. I've read what teachers have been saying about digitization and the problems with it. The motivation on digital is to save money and space because textbooks are expensive, have to be stored and there is some amount of loss. We had a home library of about 3,000 books and we took our kids to the library every week. I used to buy digital books but I've gone back to physical books because I tend to read books with fewer distractions despite the higher convenience factor of digital.
I remember when going to computer lab in my school was such a big event. I appreciate that my school still use book and pen
As a teacher, I agree. While computers are super useful, they have a ton of downsides, especially with younger kids. If nothing else, I have seen the incrediable decline in older kids knowing how to write on paper clearly
I did my whole high school online. I graduated from virtual school in 2004. I literally only used the computer for online lectures and typing up my work. I spent about 2 hours a day on the computer. I was self motivated enough to get my work done and have the rest of the day to go to the gym and work part time. They also offered optional classes in person. It was limited so I had a semester in a public high school so that I could experience the regular school life again but decided to finish my studies at home instead. I got used to learning on my own and having lots of free time. 8 hours of classes seemed like a waste of time for me. But online learning isn’t for everyone.
Excellent! Love it! The young kids NEED to read, need to analyze and comprehend the words, visualize in their minds, touch and turn the pages, use manipulatives in learning. The eyesight is damaged by staring all the time at a screen. Eyes need to adjust from light to dark, far to near, to use peripheral vision, discern fine variations in color and design. That is pathetic, a fourth grader who has trouble writing. Unless it’s from some other cause like cerebral palsy or an injury, that school is to blame. Fortunately, it’s not too late to improve. I’m a retired teacher of grades K-2, mostly grade 1, in the US. I was fortunate to work in a private school where teachers were fairly free to teach as they saw fit. The rule in my class was virtually no screens. Student phones remained turned off in a rack, just like shown. The only screen was the computer projected onto the smart board. The computer was on my desk. Computer learning was for reinforcement AFTER we’d learned from the books and by teacher guided hands-on and written lessons. Let the screens not be the mainstay until the upper grades of high school, by which time technology should be a regular subject. Computer proficiency is pretty much a “must have” skill, no matter what a young person chooses to do upon graduation, whether that be on to university and advanced degrees for a profession, college for business, or as a brick layer, forklift operator in a warehouse, or stay at home mom/dad homemaker.
I am glad things are getting back to the way it was before. Children in Norway are having ipads instead of real books and so many have terrible hand writing. There has been a discussion about it lately and I think they are changing things.
Very good!
That's excellent! Going back to our roots. Too much computer time doesn't do anyone any good.
Keep qualified teacher-librarians and well-stocked libraries in our schools!