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Ed-tech evangelism gets a much-needed reality check
Screen Schooled: two veteran teachers expose how technology overuse is making our kids dumber
Joe Clement and Matt Miles
Black Inc
272pp, £14, paperback
ISBN: 9781863959995
Ever had the feeling that tech in school isn't all it's cracked up to be? Joe Clement and Matt Miles' Screen Schooled attempts to break down some of the problems that they, as teachers, perceive in the rush to cram schools with tech. Here they set out the arguments cited for doing so and the effect the digitalisation of classrooms is having on students.
Although primarily marketed to parents and focused on the US schooling system, the book gives an insight into some of the less desirable aspects of tech use that the two authors have witnessed in their classrooms; it may serve as a rallying cry to those in the UK teaching profession who have their doubts about wholehearted, unthinking adoption of tech in educational institutions.
The book casts an extremely critical eye on what the authors call the "assumptions perpetuated by the protechnology movement". In doing so, they question the validity of mobile technology for learning when faced with the reality of the way young people work and think. The authors go...