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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top Pisa 2022 ranking countries talk about using technology at school in the launch video. It's not about books vs technology. [/quote]

I follow Pisa results because I’m an educator and I find this interesting. There are SO MANY variables at play. It’s far too simplistic to say that technology use = strong schools. It’s also the quality of the use and what else the students are exposed to.

We do NOT use technology well. I’ve had an administrator tell me that my lessons are outstanding, but that they would benefit from technology. Why? If the lessons are outstanding already, how would technology make them instantaneously better? It’s a knee-jerk reaction; we need computers to be “good.”

No, we don’t. My students engage with the material and with each other so much more when their laptops are away. They have to rely on their brains instead of Google, and it’s refreshing to watch them think instead of regurgitate. There is a time and place for technology. I no longer believe it’s in the classroom. I’ll use it when necessary (a research unit), but otherwise computers are away. [/quote]

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