The mandate that secondary students should have individual laptops is a mistake. Weak to no evidence it improves learning outcomes; expensive for families; bad for concentration and focus of our kids, and their physical health; damaging to the environment.
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Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good