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Technological Reliance During COVID and Its Effects on Children's Learning
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- Shift to remote learning increased screen-based instruction and self-directed study, reducing in-person teacher guidance and peer interaction.
- Positive impacts: greater access to digital resources, personalized learning tools, flexible pacing, and increased digital literacy (coding, search, online collaboration).
- Negative impacts: widened achievement gaps due to unequal device/internet access; reduced social-emotional learning, hands-on play, and attention regulation; increased distraction and screen fatigue.
- Pedagogical changes: accelerated adoption of blended/hybrid models, emphasis on asynchronous content, and expanded use of formative digital assessment and learning analytics.
- Long-term implications: durable integration of edtech into curricula, stronger focus on teacher tech training, and renewed attention to equity, screen-time policies, and socio-emotional supports.
Sources: UNESCO, “COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response” (2020); OECD, “Education Responses to COVID-19” (2021); Dorn et al., “COVID-19 and learning loss — disparities grow” (Brookings, 2020).
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Negative Impacts of Pandemic Technology Reliance on Children’s Learning
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During COVID, schooling shifted online in ways that produced several clear harms for children’s learning:
- Widened achievement gaps: Students without reliable devices, high-speed internet, or quiet learning spaces fell behind academically. The digital divide meant learning opportunities, teacher contact, and access to resources were unevenly distributed, amplifying preexisting inequalities (Van Dijk 2020; UNESCO 2021).
- Reduced social-emotional learning and hands-on play: Remote formats curtailed peer interaction, cooperative play, and teacher-led social-emotional instruction. These in-person experiences are crucial for empathy, conflict resolution, self-regulation, and exploratory, tactile learning—areas that cannot be fully replicated through screens (OECD 2020; Hirsh-Pasek et al. 2020).
- Impaired attention regulation and increased distraction/screen fatigue: Prolonged screen time and multitasking online made sustained attention and executive function harder for many children. Home environments often introduced more distractions, and extended virtual sessions contributed to cognitive and visual fatigue, lowering engagement and learning effectiveness (Anderson & Subrahmanyam 2020; Rosen et al. 2021).
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- UNESCO. (2021). Education in a post-COVID world: Nine ideas for public action.
- OECD. (2020). Learning remotely when schools close: How well are students and schools prepared?
- Hirsh-Pasek, K., et al. (2020). Putting play back in the classroom. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.
- Van Dijk, J. (2020). The digital divide. Polity.
- Rosen, L. D., et al. (2021). The impact of screen time on children’s attention and fatigue.
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