Reading a real paper book is more fun than reading it on your phone or laptop, whether a novel or nonfiction. But did you know that it also creates a more effective learning experience?
Turns out that memory (located in the brain's hippocampus) is linked to a physical location, like knowing where in that book you learned something. Scrolling doesn't give a physical location to a new fact, so it's missing one learning aid.
We now have decades of data on student learning associated with increasing use of education technology in classrooms. Disturbingly, it shows that kids learn less: "The more schools digitize, the worse students perform."
It was assumed that ed tech would help. But no, what disappointing results we have after all the effort and money that American school districts have spent digitizing.
from "We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains"
(cont'd tomorrow)
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