Stephen Downes

This article is one of a number (here's another one, from Doug Johnson) documenting the pushback to educational technology in schools, and especially measures limiting or blocking 'screen time' for younger children. "None of this comes as a surprise to me," writes Tim Stahmer. "Teachers and school administrators were starting to sour on edtech even before the pandemic. The panic-driven, poorly planned effort to take school online during that period, along with justifiable concerns over social media and AI, only accelerated the effort to remove technology from classrooms. Plus there's the glaring lack of evidence that the huge amounts of money spent on technology was actually improving student learning."