An opinion piece in The Times warns that England’s rollout of touchscreen statutory assessments for five-year-olds is feeding what one educator calls “screen rot.”

Despite WHO and NHS advice to limit early screen use, deploying tablets in reception year, purportedly to ease administrative work, coincides with rising concerns around speech, attention and emotional development.

The article advocates for pausing the rollout, urging schools to prioritise tactile learning over convenient ed-tech.

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