‘We don’t want distraction, we want concentration’: many teachers and parent groups think its time for a ‘digital detox’
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Earlier this month, the federal education minister, Jason Clare, took to Facebook. “When I was a kid there was a computer room at school. Now they are everywhere. From morning till night,” he wrote. “I think there is a good argument our kids need a digital detox.”
Since that post, as the minister told ABC News Breakfast last week, he has been “inundated” with support from parents and teachers.