According to data from Lightspeed systems analyzing the behavior of 2.8 million students in 344 school districts, the average American sixth grader spends 144 minutes on school-provided computing devices over the course of a given school day, and then another 27 minutes on those devices outside of school, presumably doing homework. Many educators are taking a step back and recognizing that that’s probably a bit much, that outside of the tech-empowered teaching there’s probably room for some of the more traditional teaching techniques, and that putting kids behind a computer screen for 35 percent of instructional time might not be the best way to reach them.
Sara Randazzo, Matt Barnum and Julie Jargon, The Wall Street Journal
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