What does Chromebook use look like in your kid's elementary class?
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Anonymous
I have a 3rd grader and a K kid. My 3rd graded only had computer time twice a week IN the computer lab. And there were two computers in the classroom, so one of the centers would be on the computer. My K kid gets WAY more Chromebook time. There is a cart of Chromebooks that the kids use daily. Two of the reading/math centers at on the Chromebook (the other is a listening center and the other is a worksheet activity). I volunteer a decent amount and my kids are pretty good reporters - I’d say that my K kid spends about two hours on the Chromebook. Plus the time spent on the Prometheus board. The Promethean Board time is something like a Magic School Bus video or someone reading an animated version of a picture book. My older kid got just as much Promethean Board time but my K kids gets so much more Chromebook time so I think the past three years have really seen an increase in Chromebook usage in the younger grades. |
Anonymous
| This is an insidious money grab by companies that then can use the data pulled from the devices to create future consumers/more addicting material. There is a ton of research that states children and adults don't retain information nearly as well from screens than from reading a physical book. Screen time impacts students sleep, which also has huge implications on learning and IQ. Screen time also increases anxiety. I'm a professor, and my students increasingly come to me completely addicted to their phones, unable to focus, and with insane amounts of test anxiety. This is not what I want for my kids in kindergarten and I'm honestly freaking out about this. With 20 minutes a day of recess, and kids sitting around all day on computers--how in the world is this OK with everyone? Had I known about this, I would not have moved here. |
Anonymous
Where did you move from? Honestly, it's a main reason we're biting the bullet, budgeting significantly, and sending our kid to private school. This is awful. |
Anonymous
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Are we all feeling like voices in the wilderness? Has anyone here who is concerned about the increasingly heavy use of Chromebooks had any kind of success talking with their school? Do other families just shrug their shoulders or do they share your concern?
From my perspective, the solution will not come from within our school. Is there anyone in BOE or running for BOE who is concerned, too? |
Anonymous
Haha reading this thread really makes me glad we moved to Arlington. Small classes, managed used of technology...oh and we spend the money for Apple products here. MCPS is such a joke. |
Anonymous
| ^^ use (not used). Babysitting with Chromebooks in MCPS...good luck over there. |
Anonymous
That's great. Our HS options are still better than yours. Also, why are you on here if you live in Arlington? |
Anonymous
I was thinking about getting a chromebook. Btw our universities are better than yours haha. |
Anonymous
Which counties aren't using chromebooks? We have a little flexibility.... |
Anonymous
Ha Ha? What are you all, four years old? This is about kids, not who has the shiniest car.  ^^^
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Anonymous
Except you are a douche. Haha! Everything evens out. |
Anonymous
Yes, you have UVA. Congrats. You have a mediocre, overpriced university that attracts primarily preppy, douchey kids. I know multiple hiring managers at big companies in the area who have said UMD honors graduates are almost always more impressive than UVA graduates. The UVA graduates come across as entitled assholes during the interviews. Plus you lost to a 16 seed. |
Anonymous
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Chromebooks creating future consumers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html
"Google is helping to drive a philosophical change in public education — prioritizing training children in skills like teamwork and problem-solving while de-emphasizing the teaching of traditional academic knowledge, like math formulas. It puts Google, and the tech economy, at the center of one of the great debates that has raged in American education for more than a century: whether the purpose of public schools is to turn out knowledgeable citizens or skilled workers." "The director of Google’s education apps group, Jonathan Rochelle, touched on that idea in a speech at an industry conference last year. Referring to his own children, he said: “I cannot answer for them what they are going to do with the quadratic equation. I don’t know why they are learning it.” He added, “And I don’t know why they can’t ask Google for the answer if the answer is right there.” "Google makes $30 per device by selling management services for the millions of Chromebooks that ship to schools. But by habituating students to its offerings at a young age, Google obtains something much more valuable." It's only a matter of time before other public school systems in the area embrace this too. The only option is to push back with BOE. |
Anonymous
| Nothing good will happen for our kids if you let threads devolve into insults with the noxious VA troller. Please. |
Anonymous
Where are all the real IT companies and jobs going? Most do not even really consider Montgomery county unless they peaked in the 70s. Good luck with those Chromebooks ladies. |