Randy Krehbiel

Tulsa World Reporter

Too few properly trained teachers.

Too much technology.

That could be the non-A.I.-generated summary of speakers at a legislative hearing Tuesday on learning in the digital age.

"The data is wickedly clear that computers don't help learning," said Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, an Arizona-based authority on learning. "It's been clear for awhile."

One day after the release of statewide assessments in which fewer than half of Oklahoma students scored at grade level or better, Horvath and Dan Buck of the American Enterprise Institute circled reliance on technology as a likely leading cause of declining academic achievement nationally.

A former teacher and administrator, Buck compared screens in classrooms to kudzu that he eventually "trimmed back" and "

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