{"id":387527,"date":"2026-10-13T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/should-schools-stop-screen-based-learning\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:00:24","slug":"should-schools-stop-screen-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/should-schools-stop-screen-based-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Should schools stop screen-based learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/OpY9LiWNB-4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Should schools stop screen-based learning?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpY9LiWNB-4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>More than 150 clinicians have written to ministers warning of a \u201ccrisis\u201d in children\u2019s physical and developmental health linked to screen-based learning.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to Education Secretary Lucy Powell and Health Secretary Yvette Cooper, the clinicians \u2013 including GPs, ophthalmologists, audiologists, paediatricians and speech and language therapists \u2013 describe the absence of any child-focused health scrutiny of \u201cEdTech\u201d as \u201ca serious safeguarding concern\u201d for both departments.<\/p>\n<p>The letter says that around \u00a3900 million a year is spent on \u201cEdTech\u201d in English schools, and no product is required to show that it is safe for children\u2019s physical health before a school buys it.<\/p>\n<p>The clinicians go on to warn: \u201cNo drug, food product or toy is given to millions of children without a single safety check. Yet, astonishingly, EdTech devices and platforms currently used by millions of pupils in schools and for homework every day of the week face no equivalent child-focused health scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost one million children spend nearly every lesson on screens, and many now spend longer on screens in the classroom than they are recommended to spend in a day, according to analysis cited by the clinicians.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, the proportion of short-sighted children has more than doubled since the 1960s, the clinicians say.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also warns that a three-year-old spending three hours a day on screens misses an estimated 194 conversational turns and 1,139 adult words daily.<\/p>\n<p>More than two million UK children are now struggling with speech and language, and around a third of children start school not ready to learn, according to the clinicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 clinicians have written to ministers warning of a \u201ccrisis\u201d in children\u2019s physical and developmental health linked to screen-based learning. In an open letter to Education Secretary Lucy Powell and Health Secretary Yvette Cooper, the clinicians \u2013 including GPs, ophthalmologists, audiologists, paediatricians and speech and language therapists \u2013 describe the absence of any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-387527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Should schools stop screen-based learning? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Should schools stop screen-based learning? for free, here on News ISC. 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