| Tablets can become a bitter pill |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| ALMOST 30 per cent of schools in Australia now require children to bring their own laptops or tablets, and experts say this trend has added to excessive screen exposure among children and that teachers are not properly trained to use this technology. Known as “bring your own device’’, these ad hoc initiatives are the successors to the Rudd government’s Digital Education Revolution, which provided laptops to all students from Year 9 upwards at a cost of $2.2 billion. A national survey last year of 1267 schools in all states and territories found that BYOD programs grew at a rate of 30 per cent in 2014 alone. In 2013, only one in five schools had such programs, but last year the proportion had grown to 27 per cent or more than one in four schools. |
| Source: The Australian (Australia) | Published: January 28th, 2015 |
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