I believe it’s rather

- schools being pressured to do “something” but being clueless about how education works - IT vendors exploiting this and happily selling them piles of digital something

The same cycle happens on political levels - “I know nothing about education, but I guess screens mean progress because everyone (= IT vendors) says so, so let’s give schools money earmarked for screens.

And of course the IT vendors happily support it by marketing and bribes.