I hate the Internet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also the more internet they watch the more they act like a jerk. Same thing doesn't happen when they're actually doing the math homework.

Yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?

Math is largely done in Google slides, Schoology, Mathspace, Desmond—-all on the computer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?

Math is largely done in Google slides, Schoology, Mathspace, Desmond—-all on the computer!

Desmos, not Desmond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand your frustration with the internet, but as someone who had similar problems, long before the internet (much less Youtube) was available to teens, the problem may be more related to your teen as the distractee than whatever is distracting them.

When I was a teen, I’d be distracted by whatever book I was reading, or by reading ahead in textbooks, or by entries that caught my eye looking something up in the encyclopedia or dictionary. When a kid ends up reading ahead in their grammar book or gets lost in the dictionary, you have to accept that you’re going to be hard-pressed to find things less distracting.

As an adult, I’ve come to believe that I have ADHD. Perhaps early diagnosis could have made my life a lot easier. Usually, there seems to be all the time in the world, until I blink and I’m out of time. I’ve noticed that a lot of times I procrastinate about something I’m uncomfortable doing. I also tend to be a perfectionist, and that certainly didn’t help. I think I always felt I could do more on an assignment, so if I started early, it would just drag on forever. I’d unconsciously avoid a task (despite wanting to do better and feeling guilty for not being more productive), until I knew I absolutely had to get something done because I had no choice - at which point, I’d do the assignment in a panic-induced frenzy, turning in whatever I could manage to produce.

I’m 53 now and still haven’t started my taxes despite resolving last year to do better when I panicked to turn in my taxes on the last day of the automatic extension that I had requested in a panic on tax day. I just realized that I should probably be working on them, rather than this post, but they just seemed so far off they hadn’t registered on my radar.

Mine can get distracted by books, a view out the window, throwing paper like basketballs into the trash can, but those things don't make them act like a jerk like YouTube does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?

My junior is frequently required to watch videos as part of her AP Calculus homework.

My middle schooler watches 30 minute videos on different countries for a geography. There are random questions throughout the whole thing and you cannot fast forward to the next question. You have to watch the whole thing. Makes it impossible to cheat.

I know her school got rid of touch screen because kids were playing games. I don’t know enough about it to know what games or if that actually blocked it. They blocked YouTube but again I don’t know if some computer geeks can get around the block.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it negatively impacting their grade? You can always opt out of chromebooks and your child will be given paper assignments only.

This is not true unless you have the accommodations in the IEP for all
Paper. I’m not sure you can opt out of the Chromebook as they use them for testing and such. There is no paper equivalent in the curriculum to replace delta math / IXL / Idia etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has severe ADHD and autism, and high school was the worse in terms of screen addiction. Our system was to have him do homework at the dining room table, where any one of us could walk past and glance at his screen. He had to be called out a million times a day.

Now he’s in college and mostly studying things that interest him. Of course his screen addiction gets in the way of everything else, like socializing and exercising… but he’s keeping it together. Frankly it’s a relief not to have to police him every day!

Ding!Ding!Ding! We have a poster who is willing to PARENT!

[Anonymous]

You say as typing on the internet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it negatively impacting their grade? You can always opt out of chromebooks and your child will be given paper assignments only.

This doesn’t really work - no matter what the school will tell you, the whole curriculum is online so kid wonde up missing out on lessons, etc. It doesn’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?

This. Just get rid of your wifi OP.
If he needs internet for an assignment, he can use the school's wifi or public library.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You say as typing on the internet

DP. I mean, yeah. A lot of us use it and also hate it. People aren’t 100% rational, and we don’t always do exactly what’s good for us at every moment. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?

This. Just get rid of your wifi OP.
If he needs internet for an assignment, he can use the school's wifi or public library.

He'd need a while new school. Almost every assignment is in the Chromebook.

[Anonymous]

I, for one, honestly hate how there are no more textbooks and everything, including most assignments, are on the computer. My kid says she gets tired of looking at the screen all day long, and then has homework online, as well. It also makes it much more difficult for parents to ensure assignments have been completed satisfactorily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son has severe ADHD and autism, and high school was the worse in terms of screen addiction. Our system was to have him do homework at the dining room table, where any one of us could walk past and glance at his screen. He had to be called out a million times a day.

Now he’s in college and mostly studying things that interest him. Of course his screen addiction gets in the way of everything else, like socializing and exercising… but he’s keeping it together. Frankly it’s a relief not to have to police him every day!

Ding!Ding!Ding! We have a poster who is willing to PARENT!

NP here. Am I the only one who does not view this as a success story? Perhaps because I am dealing with similar issues with my son -- but even though the PP's son is keeping it together for classes at college, he still has a screen addiction that is getting in the way of his life. I do not think success is working a 40-hour work week and then staring at a screen for the rest of your free time. No exercise, no connecting with other people? It just makes me sad and worried that this will be my son's life too.

[Anonymous]

We have always had a rule that internet use is for the main floor on the family laptop. Our oldest is only 14, so I'm sure that will change at some point in HS. Her phone still doesn't have a web browser. Only limited sites are on her school--issued ipad (no youtube, for ex). She is kind of a luddite though - our 12 year old is chomping at the bit to get a phone and I imagine will try to get around any restrictions / blocked sites she can (hence no phone yet!)