Kids Are Spending Too Much Class Time on Laptops

Kids Are Spending Too Much Class Time on Laptops

Teachers in a European capital will be banned from setting homework involving screens in an attempt to address the “risks” of intensive use of devices such as tablets and laptops at a young age, writes The Guardian.

Ayuso’s announcement that he will ban digital devices in the school of Madrid adds to the veto in force in Murcia, and to the limitations that Catalonia prepares in line with a report from the Ministry of Children and Youth

Why Madrid has banned laptops and tablets from primary-school classrooms

Primary school children in ­Madrid will be banned from using laptops and tablets in classrooms to protect their mental and physical health.

The Community will eliminate from its schools from the course that comes the individual use of digital devices for the students of Early and Primary Education and in Secondary School leaves it to the center of the centers; the patroness of the concerted religious school says that the measure violates the freedom and plurality of education María del Mar Sánchez, researcher: “In the school we place the focus on prohibiting mobile phones, but we fo…

The Community of Madrid will eliminate from all its public and concerted schools the individual use of tablets and laptops in children's and primary education students...