How Video and Online Reading Is Undermining Cognition. Protecting and Sustaining Classroom Teaching

11 August 2020 — Global Research

As the Coronavirus rages uncontrolled in the United States and elsewhere, in education we are once again relying on online delivery of courses. That of course is really the only sensible alternative we have. However, as we ramp up for another school year online, it behooves us to pause just for a moment to reflect on the serious downside of overplaying this emphasis on technology as a long-term educational method.