Michel Desmurget is the author of "La Fabrique du crétin digital. The dangers of screens for our children", Éditions du Seuil, 2019. Irène Cristofori is a lecturer in neuroscience at Lyon 1 University.
A recent article in Le Monde tells us that Sweden has decided to question the widespread digitization of its school system, on the grounds that it is "responsible for the decline in the level of students". Not surprisingly, this country was one of the first to embark on the adventure. It is therefore logical that he should be one of the first to face the extent of the damage caused.
No, what is surprising is that it took so long for a country to react to the crazy dogma of a supposedly unavoidable and necessarily beneficial digitization. Indeed, the negative impact of this process has been documented for more than twenty years. All large-scale studies have found no and at worst deleterious benefits. The international program...
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