Impact of Technology on Children's Learning

Norway in 2016 gave every kid an iPad from the age of five.

Now we're in 2026, and we have 10 years of data on a group of children that were given iPads- Yeah ... across the board.

And what did we see? We saw the, um, reading standards of Norway drop- Mm-hmm ... substantively, and we also saw the amount of words that every child knows, so their vocabulary also- Drop ... drop. Yeah.

And what has Norway done? They've removed the technology out of early years.

Yeah. That was their response. And in fact, as they look towards AI in ed tech, they are also taking a much more conservative approach.

Framing technology and applications as a product is so important because we would have product testing- Yes ... if we did.

If we compare this to the, the drug industry, we have to prove that something is safe before we introduce it to the market.

We've had the opposite thing happen with tech.

We have had to categorically prove it is unsafe before it is removed from the market.