Don’t shield students from screens, but teach them to use devices purposefully: Chan Chun Sing
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Singapore does not take a binary view of device usage
the study showed that unsupervised consumption of videos for more than two hours could result in a drop in IQ by the time a child turns seven years old. For teenagers, he said the greatest concerns are video-gaming and how social media can affect self-worth and lead to incessant comparisons with others.
It’s a bit like discovering fire… Fire can be both good and bad. If you don’t know how to use it, you burn down everything. Use it properly, and you can use it to cook and generate electricity
the Ministry of Education is clear that pupils in primary schools will not be issued their own personal learning devices. Instead, they will use shared devices available in school.