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MACPHERSON: Students across Canada need a digital detox

While schools should teach computer skills, there’s no evidence-based reason to replace pen and paper with screens for much else.

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Over the past several years, to make kids “digitally literate,” we’ve plopped glowing laptops and tablets in front of many Canadian school children, starting as young as Kindergarten. Yet there’s good evidence that this isn’t helping our kids, who are too often distracted, addicted to onscreen dopamine hits, and in need of a digital detox.

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