IDEAL Future Work Package 2 Report

34 There was also concern for the children’s physical wellbeing either the impact of technology on sleep, ability to pay attention or their physical health and the uneasiness about promoting technology use in schools through digital learning Concerns about poor handwriting quality, loss of finger dexterity, and students' handwriting skills (LV 23, future teacher) Huge difficulty with technology with us as our kids staying up late at night and gaming. Yeah. Yeah. And being absolutely exhausted then it's good the next day. (IE P1) In the next 10 years the amount of children that are going to present to a chart sightedness because not only at home, but now in school. We're encouraging this kind of this focus on the digital device (IE P21) We have a drop in the writing, the quality of the writing. It is phenomenal. And then, the mastery of reading. That is to say, the ability for the young, today, the middle school student, me, is the middle school students, to cling to a reading, in fact. We lose them, because I think they’re used to scrolling, which we all do, we go from one thing to another. And in fact, our attention is increasingly volatile. ” (FR P16) We need to make sure that technology is not the only means of motivating students, so that they do not refuse to participate in a task if it is not done in a digital environment. (LV 28, future teacher and one year of teaching experience) There was also concern that technology increased social isolation when students were physically present with one another. Observations that when mobile technologies were used that they interacted with their phones instead of each other and that this was contributing to social wellbeing and their ability to form social connections Because finally, we observe that students fall back on them, on the use of mobile, social networks while traveling and that there is no more interaction between students. So it’s pretty negative .” (FR P18) Regarding the digitisation of education on a large scale (without mentioning a specific field of learning), a participant believes that "technology both educates and deprives people", as often the tasks to be performed by learners in an interactive format are limited to "put a tick, choose the right option, cross it out". Not all the possibilities offered by technology, but some of them used by teachers in the teaching process, dull learners' ability to think, to analyse. (LV, in-service teacher 5 years) “Not everyone has a favourable opinion about technologies, especially seeing that at some stages, especially adolescents, they are very harmful.” (Sp P1) “Well, there are many problems regarding the privacy or security of our students, in the end we must keep in mind that just as it is a very powerful and very effective tool in many areas, technology can also be dangerous, and even more so when They are young children, or they are children who have never received training before about how they can prevent these risks” (Sp P1) “It is essential to establish clear policies and protocols to protect information personal and educational of students and ensure that it is used in an ethical and, above all, responsible manner.” (Sp P23) There was a tendency to address these concerns by reducing or removing screen time in the classroom and this has been a response throughout Europe, particularly in Sweden that has reverted to traditional means of learning due to a reduction in literacy scores, in addition the report highlights medical data on the negative impact of technology but much of this research is not conducted in an