Schools slash screen time after test results plummet

0:00After a disturbing drop in school test results, screen time in our classrooms is set to be slashed down to as little as 15 minutes a day. It also means the return of pen and paper with most students, teachers and parents supporting the change. Reading, writing and arithmetic go back to basics. The evidence is in, students learn better when they've got a pen and paper. The state government announcing strict guidelines for screen time inside the classroom. Under the plan, preschoolers abandoned from any screen time, kindy-dia-2, a 15 minute limit per day. From years 3 to 6 between 30 to 45 minutes, for high schoolers, the cap will range from a quarter to half of all subject lessons. The changes set to start next year and will become mandatory in 2028. Teachers have been asking me for clear clarity around guidelines around screen usage.

1:04Students will also have to use pen and paper for at least an hour a day. There is a clear difference in how students learn when they are using pen and paper as opposed to screens. Parents today like the sound of it. I think it's excellent. Pen and paper, I strongly recommend. This has had such a positive effect on us. New research shows Australian students are twice as likely to spend more than two hours a day on digital devices for learning. That's more than double the international average. And it comes at a time when reading and writing results show worrying downward trend. There's no doubt the tour linked. And they're linked around the world. Leaving getting students back to the books will be the start of turning those results around. Taylor Aiken, 7 News.