The issue of attention spans in the new generation is far more to do with what kids do in their spare time than at school. What’s wrong is the home environment where ipad/phone/laptop are the babysitter, entertainer, and nanny for every moment of still. Eating, resting, playing.
OK let’s use anecdotal evidence if that’s where value apparently lies. I have kids and they have read about 50 books a year every year. They both have had limited time on devices since early age (1 hour a day max scaling up to now with a couple hours as they got older). They use TV freely as it had little impact to early generations attention spans. 0 attention span issues. They use digital tech in school. They are both in the maths/science extension classes and doing great academically, and they’ve had no tutoring etc - just school and their homework. I’m Australia if that makes a difference.
Here’s a meta-analysis of 92 studies showing overall a benefit for using digital tooling in classes.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131520300968
The issue of attention spans in the new generation is far more to do with what kids do in their spare time than at school. What’s wrong is the home environment where ipad/phone/laptop are the babysitter, entertainer, and nanny for every moment of still. Eating, resting, playing.
OK let’s use anecdotal evidence if that’s where value apparently lies. I have kids and they have read about 50 books a year every year. They both have had limited time on devices since early age (1 hour a day max scaling up to now with a couple hours as they got older). They use TV freely as it had little impact to early generations attention spans. 0 attention span issues. They use digital tech in school. They are both in the maths/science extension classes and doing great academically, and they’ve had no tutoring etc - just school and their homework. I’m Australia if that makes a difference.