After more than 15 years of laptops in the classroom, do Australian schools need a rethink?
‘We don’t want distraction, we want concentration’: many teachers and parent groups think its time for a ‘digital detox’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEarlier this month, the federal education minister, Jason Clare, took to Facebook. “When I was a kid there was a computer room at school. Now they are everywhere. From morning till night,” he wrote. “I think there is a good argument our kids need a digital detox.”Since that post, as the minister told ABC News Breakfast last week, he has been “inundated” with support
Source: guardian-tech