Screen time in elementary schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't bother me one bit as a parent of a 2nd grader. The present and future are digital.

When your child doesn't learn or remember anything b/c they didn't put pencil to paper, it might bother you more.

NP, that’s your kid - not every kid.

There have been lots of studies showing kids remember information more when they write it down.

There have been ZERO studies on the effectiveness of ES age kids spending all day learning via laptop.

OK, well, homeschool and have them do everything on paper then. Shrug. But public schools aren’t going to do that. It’s 2022, not 1982.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't bother me one bit as a parent of a 2nd grader. The present and future are digital.

When your child doesn't learn or remember anything b/c they didn't put pencil to paper, it might bother you more.

NP, that’s your kid - not every kid.

There have been lots of studies showing kids remember information more when they write it down.

There have been ZERO studies on the effectiveness of ES age kids spending all day learning via laptop.

PP clearly stated that kids don’t learn anything - learn better and learn nothing or different. PP was making a gross overstatement. Some of our kids did well with virtual. **see how I used the word some?

Catastrophic decline in test scores suggests that this "some" is a very small number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

Ok. Which goes back to my previous “It varies” statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

[Anonymous]

Everyone should sign up for the parent reports on the school laptop usage.

FCPS has new tools to help parents and guardians know more about their child’s activity on any FCPS device. These tools are provided by Lightspeed, our internet content filtering service, at no cost to families. You may sign up for a weekly Parent Report, which will provide a list of the top sites your child visited. If you want more detailed information, sign up for the Internet Use Parent portal and log-in anytime to see more detail about your child’s browsing and “pause” access to the internet during non-school hours. Find out more and sign up for these services on our website, https://www.fcps.edu/resources/technology/lightspeed-parent-reports

I have yet to receive the weekly Parent Report, but I go in to the Internet Use Parent portal every week and am astonished by how much the laptop is used. And yes, it has been used during both PE and art (albeit rarely).

[Anonymous]

Who do you complain to to get this solved if your principal is useless? (I can't believe pp's principal tried to gaslight her with 'saving the planet'-gmafb!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My oldest went to FCPS before the pandemic. The last two years we have been at a private school. We are enrolled to come back (two kids) this fall.

I have heard a lot on other pages about screen time in FCPS.

How screen time is being done at your school and what grades?

I feel like the use of screens was overused even in spring 2020 but I am afraid maybe now FCPS never went back to normal based on what I have read in other parent groups.

Can you share how much screens are being used in elementary school? I want my kids doing normal homework using paper (writing these down physically retains more knowledge--multiple studies have been done on this.). Thanks.

As a 4th grade teacher, I can say that there is a huge variation among all of us who teach 4th grade at my school. There is definitely no consistency. It's all teacher preference. When filling out the placement forms for next year, indicate that you'd like your child with a teacher who does not rely so much on screen time.

Teacher placement forms?? Where is this? We do not have at our FCPS elementary and it sounds very helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who do you complain to to get this solved if your principal is useless? (I can't believe pp's principal tried to gaslight her with 'saving the planet'-gmafb!).

The county is encouraging it, so you need to higher than the principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My oldest went to FCPS before the pandemic. The last two years we have been at a private school. We are enrolled to come back (two kids) this fall.

I have heard a lot on other pages about screen time in FCPS.

How screen time is being done at your school and what grades?

I feel like the use of screens was overused even in spring 2020 but I am afraid maybe now FCPS never went back to normal based on what I have read in other parent groups.

Can you share how much screens are being used in elementary school? I want my kids doing normal homework using paper (writing these down physically retains more knowledge--multiple studies have been done on this.). Thanks.

As a 4th grade teacher, I can say that there is a huge variation among all of us who teach 4th grade at my school. There is definitely no consistency. It's all teacher preference. When filling out the placement forms for next year, indicate that you'd like your child with a teacher who does not rely so much on screen time.

Teacher placement forms?? Where is this? We do not have at our FCPS elementary and it sounds very helpful.

They are in the News You Choose towards the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who do you complain to to get this solved if your principal is useless? (I can't believe pp's principal tried to gaslight her with 'saving the planet'-gmafb!).

The county is encouraging it, so you need to higher than the principal.

How do you know that the county is encouraging it? And is that across the board for all grades, or encouraged only after a certain age?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

+1

The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who do you complain to to get this solved if your principal is useless? (I can't believe pp's principal tried to gaslight her with 'saving the planet'-gmafb!).

The county is encouraging it, so you need to higher than the principal.

How do you know that the county is encouraging it? And is that across the board for all grades, or encouraged only after a certain age?

Because I am a teacher. They build the common assessments online. They encourage use of ST Math, Literacy Footprints, Imagine Learning, MyOn, etc in ES by adding resources to those resources in the pacing guide. They pay for those resources. Of course they want us to use them. Did you really think they were going to make all the resources last year (both Gatehouse and teachers) and not use them again this year?