# Norway’s iPad Use, Children’s Reading and EdTech Safety

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118682229157274098
- Source account: [@Riazhaq](https://x.com/Riazhaq)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:12
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety) Norway in 2016 gave every kid an iPad from the age of five.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=6) Now we're in 2026, and we have 10 years of data on a group of children that were given iPads- Yeah ... across the board.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=16) And what did we see? We saw the, um, reading standards of Norway drop- Mm-hmm ... substantively, and we also saw the amount of words that every child knows, so their vocabulary also- Drop ... drop. Yeah.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=33) And what has Norway done? They've removed the technology out of early years.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=37) Yeah. That was their response. And in fact, as they look towards AI in ed tech, they are also taking a much more conservative approach.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=46) Framing technology and applications as a product is so important because we would have product testing- Yes ... if we did.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=55) If we compare this to the, the drug industry, we have to prove that something is safe before we introduce it to the market.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=62) We've had the opposite thing happen with tech.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/804Q1e7NIa09/en/norway-s-ipad-use-children-s-reading-and-edtech-safety?t=65) We have had to categorically prove it is unsafe before it is removed from the market.