APS Laptop use in HS

[Anonymous]

We have a rising 8th grader heading to WL.

We are trying to understand how the high school will be using laptops during the school day?

DS is a bit ADHD so is prone to losing things, so I would prefer they leave the laptop at home for assignments and homework.

People state they use the laptops in class, can you elaborate on how they are used IN the classroom, when presumably there would be instruction by the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a rising 8th grader heading to WL.

We are trying to understand how the high school will be using laptops during the school day?

DS is a bit ADHD so is prone to losing things, so I would prefer they leave the laptop at home for assignments and homework.

People state they use the laptops in class, can you elaborate on how they are used IN the classroom, when presumably there would be instruction by the teacher.

Its similar to the ipad use in middle school. They use them in classes for assignments daily. I do not think you could get away with leaving the school provided laptop at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a rising 8th grader heading to WL.

We are trying to understand how the high school will be using laptops during the school day?

DS is a bit ADHD so is prone to losing things, so I would prefer they leave the laptop at home for assignments and homework.

People state they use the laptops in class, can you elaborate on how they are used IN the classroom, when presumably there would be instruction by the teacher.

Doesn't your 8th grader take his iPad to school now?

[Anonymous]

Doesn't every school district use laptops in HS? I'd work on a system to help your DS remember it.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher at YHS and I don’t think there’s any way to leave it at home. My kids write essays in class or do collaborative work on Google Slides or make and edit videos. I know other teachers give tests online and I’m pretty sure math teachers use online programs daily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't every school district use laptops in HS? I'd work on a system to help your DS remember it.

Agree with this.
Your kid is going to have to learn how to manage it at some point. The earlier he begins, the more practice he gets, the more he develops his skills. The world is not going to accommodate his every weakness forever.

[Anonymous]

They use them all day. NO way can you leave them at home!

[Anonymous]

FWIW my kid with ADHD has never left their laptop at school. Establish a routine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't every school district use laptops in HS? I'd work on a system to help your DS remember it.

Agree with this.
Your kid is going to have to learn how to manage it at some point. The earlier he begins, the more practice he gets, the more he develops his skills. The world is not going to accommodate his every weakness forever.

With phones banned, he may need to communicate with people via email once in a while.

[Anonymous]

At w-l, they carry their stuff around all day (my kids never requested lockers), so there isn’t much of a chance of it getting lost. I’d equate it to losing your iPad or binder in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't every school district use laptops in HS? I'd work on a system to help your DS remember it.

Agree with this.
Your kid is going to have to learn how to manage it at some point. The earlier he begins, the more practice he gets, the more he develops his skills. The world is not going to accommodate his every weakness forever.

With phones banned, he may need to communicate with people via email once in a while.

How is that better? It's more disruptive to have to go into email.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At w-l, they carry their stuff around all day (my kids never requested lockers), so there isn’t much of a chance of it getting lost. I’d equate it to losing your iPad or binder in middle school.

He forgot it at school all the time, but it didn’t matter since he didn’t have any homework. He finished it all at school.

I assumed that they would have more in-depth instruction and more homework in high school, so they be less busy work on the computer during the day and actual homework at night they might require the laptop.

There really is this too much time during the day when they’re on a screen, why are they not having discussions or instruction, and leave the writing of essays to homework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't every school district use laptops in HS? I'd work on a system to help your DS remember it.

Agree with this.
Your kid is going to have to learn how to manage it at some point. The earlier he begins, the more practice he gets, the more he develops his skills. The world is not going to accommodate his every weakness forever.

With phones banned, he may need to communicate with people via email once in a while.

How is that better? It's more disruptive to have to go into email.

Presumably, because it’s harder to get sucked into TikTok on a school laptop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher at YHS and I don’t think there’s any way to leave it at home. My kids write essays in class or do collaborative work on Google Slides or make and edit videos. I know other teachers give tests online and I’m pretty sure math teachers use online programs daily

This is ridiculously depressing.

We should not be having kids make freaking PowerPoint slides, that is like the worst thing imaginable about corporate America, why in the world is in our education system

Editing videos? That should only be in like one multimedia class, are they doing videos and like history and nonsense like that?

And math should be pencil and paper, even our AOPS course which is online says to do the work on paper first and then take a picture to submit it to the teacher.

Is this because the classes are too big, the teachers are resorting to tools to automate a lot of the classwork? What caused this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher at YHS and I don’t think there’s any way to leave it at home. My kids write essays in class or do collaborative work on Google Slides or make and edit videos. I know other teachers give tests online and I’m pretty sure math teachers use online programs daily

This is ridiculously depressing.

We should not be having kids make freaking PowerPoint slides, that is like the worst thing imaginable about corporate America, why in the world is in our education system

Editing videos? That should only be in like one multimedia class, are they doing videos and like history and nonsense like that?

And math should be pencil and paper, even our AOPS course which is online says to do the work on paper first and then take a picture to submit it to the teacher.

Is this because the classes are too big, the teachers are resorting to tools to automate a lot of the classwork? What caused this?

I disagree. My APS grads have been prepared for college where they use Canvas for assignments and all tests are on the laptop. They use excel and power point. It's how the world is now, so high school should prepare them. I am grateful APS does.