I would tend to agree....there shouldn’t be any laptops or computers introduced into the school atmosphere until maybe the last year or two. There are a thousand skills that you ought to develop, without the aid of modern technology.
My smart-ass inlaws, one of whom works in the tech industry and the other one close to it, harangued me the last time we got together because my husband and I don’t let our SEVEN year-old boys own an iPhone, or have video games, etc. They tried to tell me the kids should be learning programming *now* (when one of them is still learning to read! Sheesh!). Wish I could send them this article anonymously. ;)
I’m not surprised. I can definitely see where too much tech too soon could cause developmental disabilities.
Pretty OBVIOUS stuff. You won’t find A SINGLE non-self-motivated kid who amounted to anything useful that was given full access to electronics. No way...they will NEVER STUDY if given a choice. Now there are others, mostly girls, that will study anyway (i.e., self-motivated), even if Facebook is just one click away. They do well through high school and college and get good jobs. I’d call it a feminist plot, but I don’t think they could have planned it...but they do see the results, so they keep upping the “technology” used in the schools, to intensify the results.
I had enough COMMON SENSE to know that if kids could learn from non-electronic media for 5,000 years, they probably could do the same today, regardless of how much they whined. And, as my now-grown kids have proven, I was right.