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Sweden Is Replacing Classroom Screens With Books And The World Is Paying Attention

Sweden once positioned itself as a world leader in digital education, replacing physical textbooks with tablets and laptops across its classrooms throughout the 2010s. Then the test scores started falling. Reading comprehension declined sharply among fourth-graders between 2016 and 2021, and Sweden’s results on major international assessments continued to slide during the same years its classrooms went increasingly screen-based. Researchers and officials began asking a question that had somehow not been asked loudly enough before: had the switch to digital learning ever actually been based on solid evidence? The answer, increasingly, was no. In 2023 Sweden’s government announced it was turning the ship around, and the reversal has been decisive. The education ministry has committed more than 130 million dollars to purchase physical textbooks and teachers’ guides, with the goal of ensuring every student in the country has a printed book for each subject. Students are also being taught to write by hand again, with pen and paper.

Researchers who study reading have described why this matters. Reading on a backlit screen tends to require more cognitive effort than reading on paper, particularly for young children whose foundational reading skills are still forming. Studies have linked heavy screen use in education to reduced comprehension, weaker memory retention and diminished sustained attention. Sweden’s minister for schools stated simply that physical books are important for student learning, and the Karolinska Institute, one of Europe’s most respected medical universities, had already warned that screen-based learning in young children lacked sufficient evidence of benefit while carrying real attention risks. Sweden also plans to make its schools cellphone-free. The country that once led the charge into digital education is now leading something different, and educators across Europe and beyond are watching closely to see whether the data supports the decision.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw8v7xzpdgo

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