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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just smart phones and social media. A lot of these losses are happening among elementary age kids who don't have access to either. But the reliance on Ed Tech to teach math and reading is a big problem. Blaming screens at home doesn't make sense because kids have been watching screens at home for decades, that's not something that started in 2015.

What shifted for kids is they went from mostly using books, paper, and pencil in the classroom to using 1:1 devices and ed tech software. That's true for kids who were get zero screen time at home, and it's true for kids who get hours of screen time at home every day.

Go back to physical books, handwriting, and working out math problems with pencil and paper. Studies show that children retain information better and longer when they learn it from physical media instead of digitally.[/quote]

I think one of the problems is that there's many causes of this all happening at once and it's hard to figure out what to do with all of them.

You're right it's not just smart phones, but lots of elementary schoolers are spending too much time at home on screens, screens that are appreciable different than the TVs and family computers we had growing up. Edtech is ALSO a huge issue, as is the fact that we spend years building around ineffective approaches to reading. The pandemic (and the spike in truancy that followed after we normalized not going to school) is also a factor though obviously not the only one since the problem both predates and postdates it.

I have no idea what the solution is, but the number of problems is seemingly endless.[/quote]

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