The parents' union "Together" categorically rejects the digital education model in schools

Irina Zhiltsova (Penza), Chairman of the Union of Parents "Together" / "Vmeste" (the organization has offices in more than 70 regions of Russia):

- On the digitization of education, the budget has already allocated twice as much spending as the entire annual education budget. By 2024, the national program "Digital educational environment" should already be implemented.

But the plans for digitalization themselves were developed much earlier, since 2008, and were not related to the protection of our health from a new dangerous virus, as we are told from TV screens!

It all started with the Childhood 2030 Foresight project. The digitization of education is presented to us as a blessing. “Progress does not stand still, this is our future” - this is how the officials say. So, what kind of future do they have in store for us? Let's figure it out.

On the basis of the "Childhood-2030" project, a modernized project "Education-2035" is being created. According to him, “mass knowledge and skills will be transferred primarily through automated solutions; "Live" learning will be relatively more expensive and, as a result, education turns into a "personal quest for leveling up a character" (that is, learning in the game, when the student develops according to the scenario recommended by the AI); as a result of this game - the creation of individual digital portfolios, and then - the introduction of social ratings. "

There are many options for digitizing education, but we will consider the SberClass software from Sber. It is it that most closely corresponds to the Education-2035 project.

At present, the SberClass platform is in trial operation in more than 65 regions of Russia. And it is being implemented in accordance with the instruction of the President of the Russian Federation following the meeting of the Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) dated January 30, 2019 No. Pr-118. And Sberbank was entrusted with the implementation of this idea!

Who is in charge of this project of education for our children?

Director (ASI) under the Government of the Russian Federation - Dmitry Peskov (not to be confused with the press secretary of the president). He is also the "progenitor" of the Childhood-2030 project and currently holds the post of special presidential envoy for digital and technological development.

It is Peskov who introduces such concepts as "people of one button", "slaves-intellectuals", gamers "24 by 7" and "people-archers" - the owners of human capital.

We, according to the plans of world corporations, should grow up a generation of gamers - people who have been educated in the game. He openly declares this in official speeches.

Quote from Peskov:

"Education of the future will be divided into two types -" computer "- it will be cheap, and" human "- it will be expensive, because knowledge is rapidly depreciating, and social connections and the opportunity to learn face to face will only rise in price."

Vice President of Sberbank Marina Rakova on June 3, 2021 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum said that education of the future will be divided into elite and mass. Real personal education, taking into account all the peculiarities of human development, can only be obtained by those who have a personal teacher. The rest will have a cheap mass “personal” education in which digital technologies will be used.

The chairman of the board of Sberbank, German Gref, at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (in 2012) said that he would be afraid if the power was in the hands of the people. “As soon as ordinary people understand the basis of their self, self-identify, it will be extremely difficult to manage, that is to manipulate them,” “People do not want to be manipulated when they have knowledge,” he stated.

Do you want your children to study according to programs developed by such "ideologists"?

Let's look at the example of SberClass and see how it will be implemented in real life.

How will the learning process go?

Children will receive education through a console or a computer based on a program developed by order of SBERA.

Children will now watch educational videos, teach lessons on the console and answer not to the teacher, but to take tests. The AI gives the child the grade, and the teacher transfers the data to the journal. At the first stage of the experiment, the tasks are designed for 15 minutes, but later - for at least 40 minutes.

There will be no time for live communication with the teacher in the lesson!

And the Unified State Exam, having fulfilled its role - having accustomed children to tests - dies out.

Now the student will be tested daily, the AI will assign each "individual trajectory" and maintain a digital portfolio. And the teacher will become a "navigator" - an attachment to the equipment.

The child will upgrade his account in the digital "game" in 3 available levels: low, medium, high. The level is chosen by the child himself, now the student will not be pulled up to the required level of knowledge by a living teacher! And the child himself will no longer be able to change his "digital footprint" and individual trajectory.

Why did the parents sound the alarm?

Teachers assure children and parents that SberClass will significantly increase the child's interest in the process of acquiring knowledge.

But for some reason this "game" cannot be abandoned even by children who are registered with an ophthalmologist.

The school management invites the parents of such children to change the school or class. And teachers scold children in front of their classmates, whose parents did not agree to this experiment, calling them old-fashioned and backward!

Is this a concern on the part of the state? After all, there are no studies on the safety of such training! On the contrary, scientists, doctors, psychologists speak unequivocally about the negative impact of electronic devices on the physical, emotional, social and mental health of children.

The child's psyche develops according to the stages. Play is the primary activity of the preschooler only. But what about all the other stages? Will a person trained by AI remain forever with the qualities of a small child? Moreover, most of today's children will be delighted with such a prospect.

The Research Institute of Hygiene, in its study of the effects of distance learning, revealed neurotic reactions in 41.6% of schoolchildren, "frequent desire to cry" - in 20.4%, sleep disturbances - in 55.8% of students ...

The tasks from the SberClass demo version shock not only teachers, but also ordinary parents.

For example, in the Russian language, in a simple task of placing commas, parents and children are clearly pitted against each other.

The text of the assignment: "I use a tablet instead of an e-book and read constantly, and my parents scold me for not parting with the gadget."

"SberKlass" promotes Tik-Tok in the 5th grade! In the task, you need to think over the plot, shoot a video and upload it to Tik-Tok. This is provided that Tik-Tok has an age limit of 16 years!

The task is to analyze a poem where children fight, with an emphasis on laughter and humor when others are in pain!

Or they ask in assignments - to find 3 similarities and 3 differences between the owner and his dog.

We believe that in this way a person is belittled to the level of an animal.

Can you imagine that a bank will be engaged in education?

Now it is not just Sberbank. This is a whole "Universe" that will launch its tentacles into all areas of our life. Financial management, health, education, hobbies ... Will you entrust your health, education of children - to a private financial office?

A natural question arises - what to do?

It is necessary to spend personal time and understand the topic of DSP and "SberClass" ourselves, and then help others to understand. The life of a little person largely depends on the education and upbringing not only of himself, but also of the society in which he lives!

Do not sign an agreement to participate in this trial operation.

Declare a refusal to participate in the Sberklass experiment using untested electronic teaching methods and distance learning technologies.

Minimize the use of electronic "conveniences" or completely abandon "convenient" electronic services: electronic diaries, maps of the passage / meal system, registration on websites, etc.

So, possession of a computer is one thing, and education through a computer is somewhat different.

Now the substitution of concepts is very sophisticated and subtle!

A school graduate, of course, needs to be able to own a computer.

But this does not mean at all that he must master physics, mathematics, history, the Russian language precisely by means of a computer.

These issues are deeply and comprehensively considered, for example, in the book by French researchers F. Biuy and C. Movilli “The Catastrophe of the Digital School. In defense of a school without screens ”.

As the authors write, the problems of the digital school have pedagogical, sanitary, social and environmental aspects.

And from a pedagogical point of view, no studies have yet been conducted to prove the positive consequences of using these technologies and their positive impact on the learning process.

Every argument of digital school supporters can be refuted.

The available results show that the electronic system clearly loses out to the traditional learning system and leads to degradation of mental abilities, delayed speech development, partial loss of writing skills, a drop in the level of memorization and ability to concentrate attention (which is now in crisis), a decrease in the qualitative characteristics of the psychophysiological state, then there is to everything that is characteristic of the state of "digital dementia". Because the computer fascinates, but does not teach!

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