Screen guidelines in the classroom

[Anonymous]

A maximum amount of screen time during the school day per grade including no screens in kindergarten. This sounds so sensible.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2023/07/why-a-group-is-recommending-a-screen-free-day-for-fairfax-co-schools-next-year/

[Anonymous]

Now what about the other grades?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now what about the other grades?

This is just a recommendation, nothing will change.

[Anonymous]

Haha yeah nothing will change. I’m a kinder teacher and we just got the iPads this past year. No way will be screen free. I really wish but we have to do the Lexia. I wait until the end of October and use as little as possible after that.

[Anonymous]

Well our Kindergarten hands out laptops that the kids have to lug back and forth on day 1 so that’s not happening lol. I wish though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well our Kindergarten hands out laptops that the kids have to lug back and forth on day 1 so that’s not happening lol. I wish though.

Not in FCPS. we had iPads that stayed in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well our Kindergarten hands out laptops that the kids have to lug back and forth on day 1 so that’s not happening lol. I wish though.

Not in FCPS. we had iPads that stayed in the classroom.

A few FCPS schools still have laptops for Kinder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well our Kindergarten hands out laptops that the kids have to lug back and forth on day 1 so that’s not happening lol. I wish though.

Not in FCPS. we had iPads that stayed in the classroom.

Our K had laptops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

No not “all” the teachers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

Not true.

[Anonymous]

It's brilliant, thank you SHAC! It's at least a start. My 2nd grader said the teacher would put on videos for half the day. Math videos, science videos, movies during the afternoon - it sounded like a lot. And the videos - on YouTube - come with ads because for some reason, FCPS does not have an advertisement free YouTube.

My 5th grader's teacher told me that when the kids had to choose team names for an activity, half the class were the Geico Geckos and the other half were the Truist Tigers - all because they had seen those ads over and over again in school.

[Anonymous]

Good idea but in 5-10 years classroom instructor will be an AI based robot and all material will be non-human delivered.

Can resume homework since the AI bot can work 24/7. Will have entire class on camera to maintain discipline, will literally have eyes in the back of their head.

Can build them cheaply so will be able to stratify kids by ability, and kids can go as fast and as far in math and science as they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good idea but in 5-10 years classroom instructor will be an AI based robot and all material will be non-human delivered.

Can resume homework since the AI bot can work 24/7. Will have entire class on camera to maintain discipline, will literally have eyes in the back of their head.

Can build them cheaply so will be able to stratify kids by ability, and kids can go as fast and as far in math and science as they want.

I’m thinking closer to 20-30 years, but not far from the truth.