Reports

The survey report details the results of a series of NSW statewide surveys to capture the perceptions and practices of key education stakeholders towards the use of screens by school students. The data in this report were gathered through five online surveys of students, parents, teachers, school leaders, and pre-service teachers, which were administered between August and November 2025. This included responses from 1686 parents, 1057 students, 914 teachers, 166 school leaders and 805 pre-service teachers. By providing insights into school students’ screen use patterns for both learning and leisure across school and home settings from a range of stakeholder perspectives, this report provides a comprehensive account of current strengths, emerging challenges, and areas opportunity to optimise screens use by school students. Download Survey Report (PDF)

This report provides a ‘state of play’ snapshot of educational screen use in NSW public schools, drawing on in-person observations in 68 classrooms, totalling 57 hours of lesson time, across Stages 1–6 and a broad spread of Key Learning Areas (KLAs). Observations featuring a combination of contextual field notes and planned learning activity checking (PLA-check) with sampling at five-minute intervals documenting how teachers and students used digital technologies and the extent of student engagement with learning tasks. Download Classroom Observation Report (PDF)