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The amount of time children and teenagers are spending on digital technology inside and outside school is having a significant impact on their classroom learning, and physical and mental wellbeing, according to teacher and principal data from an Australian research study. The first round of data from Growing Up Digital Australia show 84 per cent believed devices were a growing distraction in classrooms, while 78 per cent reported students’ ability to focus on educational tasks had decreased (Gonski Institute for Education, 2020). The majority of educators surveyed also reported a decrease in student empathy (78 per cent) and physical activity (60 per cent), while roughly four out of five (81 per cent) said they had seen an increase in online harassment and cyberbullying. Almost six out of 10 teachers and principals (59 per cent) reported a decline in students’ overall readiness to learn over the last three to five

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