I find this article to be frustratingly gappy and the discourse here about it to be awful, a soup of personal anecdotes that would make the bikeshed painting discourse proud. Given at least 10 years of different types of EdTech in classrooms, is there really no peer-reviewed study about the effects of technology in the classroom conditioned on type of technology, time spent, etc? It's no doubt that the comments are personal anecdotes because the article itself is a soup of meta-analyses that dance around a picture that isn't really clear to me.
I don't disagree with the thrust of the article and it makes intuitive sense to me but it feels so substance free as to be unactionable. Yes multi-tasking is bad for individuals, yes kids spend a lot of time on media. Are there other interventions that are better? Are lower class sizes a bulwark against this? How does income and culture (anglosphere, asia, etc) affect this?
I don't disagree with the thrust of the article and it makes intuitive sense to me but it feels so substance free as to be unactionable. Yes multi-tasking is bad for individuals, yes kids spend a lot of time on media. Are there other interventions that are better? Are lower class sizes a bulwark against this? How does income and culture (anglosphere, asia, etc) affect this?