Winchester College drops laptops for pen and paper
Winchester College has abandoned laptops in favour of pens and paper in a crackdown on screens in classrooms. In a recent article in the UK Telegraph, Emily Smith wrote: The headmistress of one of Britain’s most academically selective schools said it was returning to traditional teaching methods because of concerns about screens hindering learning. Elizabeth Stone, the school’s first female headteacher, said the use of laptops in lessons was “distracting”, and that students would only be allowed to use them where there was evidence that they would be of “substantial” benefit to the children’s education. She told The Sunday Times: “There’s no point just tackling the phones if we’re going to say ‘Here’s a laptop that you have to have with you all the time, and you get access to it whenever you want’, because the vast majority of the activity that they’re doing on the phone can then just shift as easily onto a tablet or a laptop.” Ms Stone said the removal of laptops had already led to an improvement in learning. To …
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