Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

    • Hyperreality@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      The problem is that a lot of (admittedly overstretched) parents use the phone as a pacifier and don’t monitor use much if at all.

      Tommy’s being a little shit? Give him the phone so he’s distracted.

      Of course, if little Tommy’s never learnt to deal with being bored, keeping quiet for half an hour, and never learnt to concentrate for longer than the length of a tiktok video, he’s going to have trouble adapting to education.

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I agree with this. However, I was more talking about the use of computers for everything. Reading, math, etc are done in computers now. Students retain more information when they have to write it out on paper.