Australian students have recorded their worst-ever results in national tests that measure digital literacy, with just 37 per cent of year 10 students and 50 per cent of year 6 students assessed as proficient.
Approximately 10,000 students across both year levels took the test in May last year and were marked on creating presentations, searching for information, analysing data and online safety.
The testing showed concerning achievement gaps, with Indigenous students, those living in remote areas and those with low socio-economic advantage falling well behind their peers.
sooka_bazooka on
Say thanks to dumbed down phones and tablets. If my kid would want a phone, they’d get a Thinkpad with Linux installed on it.
locri on
Because phones aren’t the same as desktop computers.
What’s missing from the article is that not every kid believes the extent of computing is a phone that locks you out of its file system. Many young people are PC gamers, of them many are curious how games are written and what you actually have is an extreme differential of people who doom scroll against people who play video games.
But video gamers are icky, so many media companies don’t enjoy acknowledging their existence.
Pugblep on
I’d heard from a lot of teachers that parents are doing less and less with their kids at home to facilitate learning and get more offended by their kids doing poorly in school than taking it as a cue to get their kids extra help.
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Australian students have recorded their worst-ever results in national tests that measure digital literacy, with just 37 per cent of year 10 students and 50 per cent of year 6 students assessed as proficient.
Approximately 10,000 students across both year levels took the test in May last year and were marked on creating presentations, searching for information, analysing data and online safety.
The testing showed concerning achievement gaps, with Indigenous students, those living in remote areas and those with low socio-economic advantage falling well behind their peers.
Say thanks to dumbed down phones and tablets. If my kid would want a phone, they’d get a Thinkpad with Linux installed on it.
Because phones aren’t the same as desktop computers.
What’s missing from the article is that not every kid believes the extent of computing is a phone that locks you out of its file system. Many young people are PC gamers, of them many are curious how games are written and what you actually have is an extreme differential of people who doom scroll against people who play video games.
But video gamers are icky, so many media companies don’t enjoy acknowledging their existence.
I’d heard from a lot of teachers that parents are doing less and less with their kids at home to facilitate learning and get more offended by their kids doing poorly in school than taking it as a cue to get their kids extra help.
READ TO YOUR KIDS AND HELP THEM HOMEWORK