The Writing Pendulum: Why the “Digital Detox” Won’t Fix Australia’s Literacy Crisis (And What Will)

[Bryan James Santos]

Quick summary The Classroom Whiplash If you teach in an Australian school, you are likely experiencing policy whiplash. A decade ago, the $2.4-billion Digital Education Revolution (DER) promised that 1:1 laptops and BYOD schemes would transform learning. Today, after years of flatlining NAPLAN writing scores and a two-decade slide down international PISA rankings, the political […]