Sophie Winkleman
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Mar
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Thank you very much for having me.
I got involved from basically lockdown and seeing how terribly my children and every other child I was in contact with their parents was learning online and on screens.
I also became patron of an education charity and I visited many, many schools around Britain.
And I felt in a position after that to see what worked in the classroom and what doesn't work in the classroom.
And schools where tech was used extremely moderately, in fact, just for IT lessons, the children were engaged, they were learning well, they had good relationships with their teachers, they would work in a calm way with books and handwriting.
These schools stood out a mile, whether it was a free school or a private paying school, these were at the top of the heap.
and then loads of other schools strangely especially very expensive schools drank the ed tech kool-aid and splattered the classrooms with devices and it was done in a very proud aren't we cream of the crop kind of way and initially parents were thinking yeah my kid's gonna be zuckerberg at 25 they're gonna be you know on screens all day they're gonna know the ins and outs of this thing and
Yay, I'm looking forward to it.
Exactly.
And the school presented it in this futuristic, shiny, progressive way.
And to be fair, a lot of them probably did think that it was the future of education.
But then when their children started getting agitated and angry and not concentrating and
going to sleep later and getting headaches and then playing games after all the online homework, parents started going, whoa, really?
Is this definitely the future of education?
And haven't all these companies presented us with a solution where there wasn't actually a problem?
I mean, clearly huge class sizes are a problem and teacher overload in terms of social behavior and stuff.
That's a huge problem.
But books and handwriting and teacher-led learning was not a problem.
Precisely.
It's a very sad, hypocritical, big old secret that the mega tech giants understand that the human capital is now attention and focus.
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