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Hong Kong's government is investing heavily in artificial intelligence tools for education, advocating that children need to master technology. However, an advertisement by Garden House Waldorf School argues that true mastery of AI requires more than just screen time; it necessitates physical activity and sensory engagement. The school emphasizes the detrimental effects of excessive screen usage on children’s emotional stability, curiosity, and risk of myopia, citing studies showing increased risks of anxiety and depression with higher screen exposure.

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Hong Kong's government has committed significant funding to integrate artificial intelligence into educational settings, supporting schools like Garden House Waldorf School in purchasing AI tools and digital resources. However, the school emphasizes that mastering technology requires more than just screen time; it necessitates fostering qualities such as groundedness, confidence, imagination, and humanity through non-digital means. The school argues that while AI can support learning by calculating, translating, summarizing, generating images, and simulating conversation at an astonishing speed, it cannot replace the experiences that help children develop into fully rounded individuals. This approach underscores a broader debate about the role of technology in education and the need for balance between digital tools and traditional teaching methods to ensure holistic development.

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The evidence on screen time is alarming. Studies tracking children aged two to five have found that as screen time increases, so does emotional fragility, irritability, difficulty calming down, and an inability to complete tasks.

left criticizes the impact of increased screen time on children's well-being
Children with high screen exposure struggle to remain calm when faced with challenges. Their curiosity declines. The risks of anxiety and depression escalate.

left describes negative psychological effects of excessive screen use in children
The problem is not merely the screen itself. It is everything that screen time displaces: physical activity, imaginative play, face-to-face interaction, and the rich sensory engagement that builds resilience.

left emphasizes the displacement of beneficial activities by excessive screen use
A landmark study involving over 300,000 children found that for every additional hour of daily screen time, the risk of myopia increases. At four hours per day, the risk roughly doubles.

left cites research linking increased screen time to higher rates of myopia

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But it operates on a dangerous assumption: that understanding words is equivalent to understanding thought, and that understanding thought is equivalent to understanding another human being.

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] Why Children Need More Than Screens to Master the Future Hong Kong is moving decisively into the age of artificial intelligence in education. asserted

Kong → need → education

The government has committed significant funding to digital education, supporting schools in purchasing AI tools, digital resources and related training. asserted

government → commit → tools

The message from policymakers is clear: our children must learn to master technology. asserted

children → learn → technology

But true mastery requires much more than screen time. asserted

mastery → require → time

To master AI, children must first master something far older, subtler and more profound themselves. asserted

children → master → something

Artificial intelligence can calculate, translate, summarise, generate images and simulate conversation at astonishing speed. asserted

intelligence → calculate → speed

Used well, it can support learning and open new possibilities. asserted

it → use → possibilities

But AI cannot replace the experiences through which children become grounded, confident, imaginative and fully human. asserted

children → replace → which

This is why, at Garden House Waldorf School, our approach to education begins not with the screen, but with the child. asserted

approach → begin → child

Studies tracking children aged two to five have found that as screen time increases, so does emotional fragility, irritability, difficulty calming down, and an inability to complete tasks. asserted

fragility → track → tasks

These patterns persist across age groups from six to seventeen. asserted

patterns → persist → seventeen

Children with high screen exposure struggle to remain calm when faced with challenges. asserted

Children → struggle → challenges

Their curiosity declines. asserted

curiosity → decline → ?

The risks of anxiety and depression escalate. asserted

risks → escalate → anxiety

They are signals of confusion — of a child who has lost their internal compass. asserted

who → lose → compass

It is everything that screen time displaces: physical activity, imaginative play, face-to-face interaction, and the rich sensory engagement that builds resilience. asserted

that → displace → resilience

A landmark study involving over 300,000 children found that for every additional hour of daily screen time, the risk of myopia increases. asserted

risk → involve → myopia

At four hours per day, the risk roughly doubles. asserted

risk → double → day

In parts of Asia, myopia rates have surged from modest levels in the 1970s to 80 or even 90 percent today. asserted

rates → surge → percent

The eye is designed for flexibility — alternating between distant horizons and nearby objects. asserted

eye → design → horizons

Locked onto screens for hours, it loses that adaptability. asserted

it → lock → adaptability

The Sensory Imbalance of the Digital Age Consider the online meetings that have become part of our daily lives. asserted

that → consider → lives

They engage at most two senses: vision and hearing. asserted

They → engage → senses

A mode of perception dominated by vision and hearing will only intensify, leaving the lower senses — touch, smell, taste, life sense, balance and movement — chronically underdeveloped. asserted

mode → dominate → senses

AI excels at recognising words. asserted

AI → excel → words

But it operates on a dangerous assumption: that understanding words is equivalent to understanding thought, and that understanding thought is equivalent to understanding another human being. asserted

understanding → operate → being

Everything becomes confined to the literal, with no warmth to complete the circuit. asserted

Everything → confine → circuit

There are people who "know" each other through social media, yet find themselves completely lost when meeting in real life. asserted

themselves → be → life

They possess information about one another, but they lack the sensory experience of one another. asserted

they → possess → one

Wisdom Cannot Be Downloaded asserted

Wisdom → download → ?

None of this means that technology is bad, nor that AI should be kept out of education forever. asserted

AI → mean → education

Children must eventually learn to understand it, question it and use it wisely. asserted

Children → learn → it

The question for our age is not whether children will use AI. asserted

children → use → AI

The question is whether they will bring to it a fully developed humanity — bodies that are awake, senses that are alive, hearts that can feel, and minds that can judge. asserted

that → bring → humanity

That is the one question AI could not answer. uncertain

AI → answer → ?

It can only be answered by how we choose to educate our children. asserted

we → answer → children

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