Brain Breaks just teaching kids to watch short videos?

[Anonymous]

Anyone else feel the push of YouTube brain breaks and videos for littles is just priming small kids to watch more videos?

I listened to the WSJ story about YouTube in school.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I absolutely hate it. It’s not a brain break, its brain rot.

[Anonymous]

Yup I hate this so much. Just put on music and let them dance. NO VIDEO.

[Anonymous]

YES. Some people will tell you this is no biggie and there are bigger issues in schools, but it starts early. Schools need to support teachers to move away from this practice. Regardless of what parents do for screen time at home, brain rot shouldn't have a place in our schools and every little kid should have a chance to build the focus and attention they need to experience the school day.

[Anonymous]

agreed, its ridiculous.. my kid asks for "brain breaks" at home when I don't let him watch TV... ha, nice try kid!

[Anonymous]

Yes, and I’m a teacher. Let them get a brain by talking to each other or doing jumping jacks.

It just adds to their already loaded screen time at school and at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup I hate this so much. Just put on music and let them dance. NO VIDEO.

Um, I agree with you, but HOW? This is one of those things you need to think through.

On CDS? Will the school buy them for all the teachers along with a CD player. (They threw them all away)
On a subscription service with a blue tooth speaker? (Again $$$$)
Or just on free YouTube.

[Anonymous]

PS- don’t say that you would gladly pay for it because that only works for your classroom and you have to have a willing teacher. You need to lobby at the district level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YES. Some people will tell you this is no biggie and there are bigger issues in schools, but it starts early. Schools need to support teachers to move away from this practice. Regardless of what parents do for screen time at home, brain rot shouldn't have a place in our schools and every little kid should have a chance to build the focus and attention they need to experience the school day.

If you think we need to teach “regardless of what parents do for screen time at home” then you need to halve class sizes. I’m not joking, the crap behavior from devices starts very very young. I’m sure it is easy for you to pass responsibility for teaching all social behavior on your child’s teacher, but this is a HUGE piece of why teaching is so difficult.

Your next post about behavior in the classroom will stem directly from the believe that teachers need to be responsible for all group behavior when many parents are giving toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kis ipads in all social settings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YES. Some people will tell you this is no biggie and there are bigger issues in schools, but it starts early. Schools need to support teachers to move away from this practice. Regardless of what parents do for screen time at home, brain rot shouldn't have a place in our schools and every little kid should have a chance to build the focus and attention they need to experience the school day.

Correct. The excuse is well they come to us addicted to screens. 1) not all of them do and 2) this is a public good space so the bar should be higher than uneducated lazy parents.
You going to let them smoke too because they get hotboxed with mom? Are you going to let them beat each other up because the parents let siblings fight it out? Are you going to leave them without supervision because their Mom has to work nights and there is no other adult?

Also, if you arent going to ban cell phones in schools, especially ES then have a class dedicated to this kids who have phones and everyone else can be in other classes. Im tired of hearing about my kid seeing crap on some other kids phone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup I hate this so much. Just put on music and let them dance. NO VIDEO.

Um, I agree with you, but HOW? This is one of those things you need to think through.

On CDS? Will the school buy them for all the teachers along with a CD player. (They threw them all away)
On a subscription service with a blue tooth speaker? (Again $$$$)
Or just on free YouTube.

I would much rather pay for a subscription music service than iReady and I’m sure it’s much cheaper. And you and play it through the smart boards that every single classroom already has.

But also, come on. Put on a song on your iPhone via YouTube and put the phone upside down on your desk. Put YouTube on your smart board and cover it with a piece of oak tag. This is a solvable problem with what they already have in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YES. Some people will tell you this is no biggie and there are bigger issues in schools, but it starts early. Schools need to support teachers to move away from this practice. Regardless of what parents do for screen time at home, brain rot shouldn't have a place in our schools and every little kid should have a chance to build the focus and attention they need to experience the school day.

If you think we need to teach “regardless of what parents do for screen time at home” then you need to halve class sizes. I’m not joking, the crap behavior from devices starts very very young. I’m sure it is easy for you to pass responsibility for teaching all social behavior on your child’s teacher, but this is a HUGE piece of why teaching is so difficult.

Your next post about behavior in the classroom will stem directly from the believe that teachers need to be responsible for all group behavior when many parents are giving toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kis ipads in all social settings.

Yes this is directly related to all the posts about behaviors, but I never said teachers should be responsible for everything. Fully acknowledge that some parents give preschoolers iPads. But if you disapprove of that, why do we accept that they be on them in school? I'm just tired of schools—not pointing to individual teachers, this seems to be school-wide and district-wide policy and culture issue—concluding that all kids need to get a regular dose of brain rot short videos just because some kids can't manage without it. Or learning via tapping on iPads in kindergarten. Or being rewarded with watching YouTube after already spending hours on screens for test prep and testing (so many tests).

Of course, it's not just the videos and tablets responsible, but the idealist in me wants to think that school and the classroom should be a nurturing place for all kids regardless of what they are confronted with at home. It's not a surprise that the "behaviors" get more pronounced in upper grades. We didn't toast their attention spans and resilience – they never really had a strong chance at building that to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Our teacher does movement brain breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup I hate this so much. Just put on music and let them dance. NO VIDEO.

Um, I agree with you, but HOW? This is one of those things you need to think through.

On CDS? Will the school buy them for all the teachers along with a CD player. (They threw them all away)
On a subscription service with a blue tooth speaker? (Again $$$$)
Or just on free YouTube.

I would much rather pay for a subscription music service than iReady and I’m sure it’s much cheaper. And you and play it through the smart boards that every single classroom already has.

But also, come on. Put on a song on your iPhone via YouTube and put the phone upside down on your desk. Put YouTube on your smart board and cover it with a piece of oak tag. This is a solvable problem with what they already have in the classroom.

Dude YouTube means video. No I’m not using my personal phone for this. My teenagers have music the kindergarteners can’t listen too. Mistakes can happen too easily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our teacher does movement brain breaks.

Thank goodness you have that!


Our school does movement brain breaks via Danny Go! videos on Youtube...