• How do device ratios impact students and teachers? What is the minimum effective ratio of devices to students? How does this vary according to student characteristics including age?
Background
Technology, including digital technology and artificial intelligence, has great potential to transform lives, but we need to develop our expertise to deploy them well, and to help learners, families and carers to use them safely and judiciously, taking account of the need for a healthy balance of “screen time” and time away from screens.
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