Seven CCAA backs down with the screens and mark a change in trend

The Spanish education system has a peculiar way to embrace innovations: with excessive enthusiasm first, and with equal intensity when rejecting them later.

First was the aspirational devotion for the Finnish model, then the obsession to digitize each classroom. Today, just over a decade after that race to fill the laptops, We are seeing the principle of an opposite pendular movement: Seven Autonomies – governments by both PP and PSOE – are regulating to reduce screens in classes, according to The world.

This turn is not born from a political whim. The results of the latest PISA tests and international evaluations have been another jug ​​of cold water. The reading comprehension and the basic mathematical skills They are collapsing while students spend more time with a tablet and less with paper and ball.

Madrid, the Region of Murcia, Valencian Community, Balearic Islands, Galicia, Asturias and Catalonia are preparing different regulations but with the same spirit:

• Recover paper.
• Limit the hours in front of the screens.
• And reflect on whether we really need to do all duties in digital.

We are also seeing many politicians to seek the tribute applause cursing the screens in the classrooms, but none do self -criticism when the tribune rewarded the slogan “a child, a laptop.” Is Selective amnesia that allows to navigate comfortably between opposite trends Without assuming responsibilities.

Correction has no political color. The Socialist Asturian Lydia Espina and the popular Murcia Fernando López Miras coincide in the fundamental although they disagree in the forms, for giving two examples.

Perhaps the most notable difference is that while Madrid opts for a more blunt prohibition, other regions prefer to set recommendations, leaving a certain margin of maneuver to the centers. But the message is clear: enough of tablets for everything.

The most interesting thing about this Pendulazo is that it arrives right now, when the technology industry continues to promise the educational revolution through its devices, and when The AI ​​begins to appear in the classrooms.

But between technological determinism and nostalgia for grid notebooks, perhaps what we are really seeing is a healthy maturity exercise: technology must be a medium, not an end.

And like any tool, it has its optimal use moments. Not all the time. Not for everything. And of course, not for everyone at the same age. And we are starting to see it.

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