Excessive screentime in the classroom

[Anonymous]

Does anyone ever worry about this? Teachers using excessive amounts of YouTube videos, computer games, technology to teach rather than actually directly teaching?

[Anonymous]

Are you in the classroom OP? How are you tracking how much time your kid is spending on a screen?

[Anonymous]

It's what engages the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's what engages the kids.

Cite the research that proves this.

[Anonymous]

Some principals force students and teachers into it despite the research about too much being harmful.

[Anonymous]

My kindergartner references go noodle and silly videos they watch in class all the time. The quality is sub par and not educational. And the promethian boards that is hard to see because of the glare or the lights are on etc. it’s a mess.

[Anonymous]

I work in a school (not a classroom teacher) and I'm appalled at how much screen time they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone ever worry about this? Teachers using excessive amounts of YouTube videos, computer games, technology to teach rather than actually directly teaching?

It's almost like we're in the future!

[Anonymous]

In high school, it is the kids who are constantly on their phones. MCPS has no policy with actual teeth behind it to curb cell phone use.

[Anonymous]

My first grader seems to spend a good chunk of every day on the chromebook. I hate it.

[Anonymous]

I'm a high school teacher. We have been told that we need to post everything in Canvas (all learning materials and assignments) so that students have full access to them when they are absent. Because of this requirement, I have found that it is much easier to just have my students who are in the classroom access the materials from there. It just takes too much time to duplicate all of that stuff on the copy machine when I have already spent so much time creating my Canvas platform. Because all of the assignments are on Canvas, it then makes it easier to collect most assignments on paper rather than tracking who turns in items online vs. on paper. So even though I do worry about students being online so much, it seems to be the direction MCPS is moving in. I'm not trying to make excuses; I'm just trying to share one of the reasons more and more classrooms (at least in high school) are so reliant on technology.

[Anonymous]

My son's class apparently watched so much YouTube in science class (and the ads you have to watch before the video plays) that when they had to pick teams for some activity, they named themselves the "Geico Geckos" and something like the "Truist Tigers." How come these large school districts can't at least negotiate with YouTube not to show the ads?

When I was growing up, ads in schools were strictly prohibited.

[Anonymous]

It’s MS where it goes off the rails. Our ES teachers use it judiciously — being able to watch a video that brings a science concept to life is really tremendous, and doing a just dance movement break mid day is so helpful.
The one thing I really object to is the research projects for which they are limited to a could very superficial online resources. Kids should be able to expand their research through the library if they have the motivation. They are teaching the laziness is the norm.

[Anonymous]

We are in an FCPS ES and the aount of screentime is ridiculous.

We get a lightspeed report (you have to hunt around to figure out you can request it) and my child vistis 200 website a day on average. fifth grade. Its INSANE.

[Anonymous]

Please don't blame the teachers on this one. We are forced to use a fully ONLINE English curriculum in middle school called StudySync. Please contact the BOE and tell them you don't want this curriculum and others that are online. Our hands are tied. We try to do activities that are OFF the chromebooks whenever we can but we are forced to follow this curriculum online.