How much screen time/technology is used in elementary schools in 2023?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

Blackboards were better for learning. A kid would walk up to one, pick up a piece of chalk, and solve a math problem by hand with the class.

Smartboards are just giant screens. Info is not retained as well. The slideshows are just laziness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately my daughters teachers are using a digital notebook on the computer this year for LA, Science and SS. It sucks.

I was told by a teacher last year that they scanned everything in for Covid school year and its much easier to just use it online then print paper copies. I offered to donate copy paper so the kids could at least write out by hand. She said there was plenty of paper, it was just more "earth friendly" to be on screens all day.

[Anonymous]

They need rules on max amount of times spent on the laptops per grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately my daughters teachers are using a digital notebook on the computer this year for LA, Science and SS. It sucks.

If you look at the slides, they will probably say something on the bottom like "2021 school year FCPS central office curriculum). They pushed out tons of crappy slides for schools to use.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

Blackboards were better for learning. A kid would walk up to one, pick up a piece of chalk, and solve a math problem by hand with the class.

Smartboards are just giant screens. Info is not retained as well. The slideshows are just laziness.

Do you not know how a SmartBoard works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

Blackboards were better for learning. A kid would walk up to one, pick up a piece of chalk, and solve a math problem by hand with the class.

Smartboards are just giant screens. Info is not retained as well. The slideshows are just laziness.

These videos show students interacting with SmartBoards:

https://youtu.be/tIce-wmEAKY?si=sUc8t8HETpjGKSsc

https://youtu.be/ySAGMv8tN8E?si=_EaAiZVGd_hgjJnK

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

Blackboards were better for learning. A kid would walk up to one, pick up a piece of chalk, and solve a math problem by hand with the class.

Smartboards are just giant screens. Info is not retained as well. The slideshows are just laziness.

Do you not know how a SmartBoard works?

+100, an often times there is a white board next to the smart board where this could be done. PP has got to be a troll.

[Anonymous]

Put screens like Smart Boards and laptops in rooms, and the temptation will be to overuse. I would be thrilled to see a classroom with a chalkboard, no student laptops or computer stations, and tons of books, manipulatives, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

Blackboards were better for learning. A kid would walk up to one, pick up a piece of chalk, and solve a math problem by hand with the class.

Smartboards are just giant screens. Info is not retained as well. The slideshows are just laziness.

Do you not know how a SmartBoard works?

+100, an often times there is a white board next to the smart board where this could be done. PP has got to be a troll.

You can do the work right in the SmartBoard itself. It’s interactive. See the videos above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

Blackboards were better for learning. A kid would walk up to one, pick up a piece of chalk, and solve a math problem by hand with the class.

Smartboards are just giant screens. Info is not retained as well. The slideshows are just laziness.

I'm pretty sure walking up to the smartboard, writing on it with the smartboard marker is at least as intellectually equivalent as the writing with chalk on a chalkboard--minus the dust and the squeaks.

[Anonymous]

Actually most of the smart boards put up years ago no longer work and the county doesn’t support the software anymore. So they are just giant screens to look at.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Reid and central off said last year that teachers need to get back to pen and paper. Less google slide assignments and no you tube real alouds, etc. But it is not translating down to the schools and curriculum services hasn’t been able to re write and take out old slide decks from the Covid time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Reid and central off said last year that teachers need to get back to pen and paper. Less google slide assignments and no you tube real alouds, etc. But it is not translating down to the schools and curriculum services hasn’t been able to re write and take out old slide decks from the Covid time.

Teacher here. I wonder if the schools who are mostly on laptops all day are the ones who were 1:1 with FCPSOn before Covid. I don’t know one teacher at my school that has kids on computers all day(virtual notebooks, google slide assignments, etc.) Technology is used but not all day. I would say if I had to estimate by grade level…
K-2- 30 mins a day
3-30-60 mins a day
4-6- 30-120 mins a day. 120 mins is when certain projects are happening or students are getting ready to publish pieces.

Good teachers know how to balance the tech usage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion.
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school.

I disagree. There has been little to no reading a physical book, other than 20min at home enforced by a parent. There are no textbooks at school, so there is no material on social studies or science to read. The students only write during a writing prompt time. The Google slide decks from Covid are being used and kids might write in one word answers on a worksheet. There is no dictation. There is no taking notes at all. The notes are given to the students in a packet of worksheets stapled together. There is no textbook to consult with when the student misses some blanks. So, all in all, very little handwriting occurs each day and much less reading.