The Community of Madrid will prohibit the course that comes “the individual use of digital devices in students of early and primary education”, as announced by the regional government through a note. Translated: It is extended to computers, tablets or any other device the veto to the already in force mobiles. In high school this measure will be left to the Albur of the educational centers, exactly the same as now with the phones.
“It returns to the essence of education adapted to today’s times, to books, to the dictates and calligraphy, which we will make compatible with which students have digital skills,” explained the Minister of the Presidency, Miguel Ángel García, after the Governing Council, although he has not explained how both issues will be combined.
The future decree of the Regional Government “will establish that children of Infant and Primary will not be able to work individually with digital devices, and their teachers will not be able to schedule the realization of duties or other academic tasks in which they have to use tablets, computers, mobiles or the like outside the school schedule,” expands the note sent by the executive presided by Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The educational centers that already have some program in progress will have another course of moratorium.
The measure, announced by the community between qualifiers such as “pioneer” or “First in Spain”, is part of the battle that the president has against technology in school – it was the first to prohibit its use – and has a small print, according to the community itself.
Catholic Schools (EC), the employer of the Church that controls the religious concerted centers, has criticized the measure through a note, and have done so with where Ayuso hurts the most, accusing her of curtaining the freedom of choice of families, one of the maxims that she likes to put the president most when defending her commitment to the concerted school. “It is a taxative measure that is contradicted by the principles of freedom, plurality and teaching quality postulated by the Community of Madrid and that, without a doubt, worries the 340 centers that make up the network of Catholic schools in Madrid, seeing their right to develop their own educational project and, above all, freely chosen by families,” says EC, which represents one of every six centers of the network. region.
Two weekly hours
The note disseminated by the regional government extends somewhat the details that will include the decree. “As for the shared use between two or more students, it will always be allowed for a pedagogical purpose, under the supervision of teachers and with time limitations depending on the ages and stages. Thus, in the second cycle of early childhood education (children from 3 to 6 years) and in the first two elementary courses, this shared management will be restricted to a weekly hour,” he explains.
For 3rd and 4th students that shared use is extended at an hour and a half and those of 5th and 6th can reach up to two hours per week. Finally, the Community of Madrid adds, the decree will contemplate exceptions. “Those students with specific support needs that require these digital resources, after a psycho -pedagogical report, can use them without any time stop.
A year ago, the Ministry of Education recommended to the Autonomous Communities to veto the use of mobile and primary mobile, a measure that many already had in force, which divides teachers and that, in their maximums of total prohibition, it has no scientific support. The OECD, in an analysis after PISA’s latest edition, suggested that moderate use is positive: “The OECD does not recommend the generalized ban, rather invites countries to develop policies that allow students to make adequate and moderate use in school in order to learn,” said Daniel Salinas, an OECD analyst and one of the authors of the test.
To Isabel Galvín, educational head of CCOO in Madrid, the measure raises more questions than answers. “It is being considered that at school you cannot use computers or tablets. If they are not used and learned to use at school, will they be used outside? Who will benefit from this measure? Doesn’t it mean expanding the gap and social inequality and imbalances?”, Leaves in the air.
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