Screentime at School in Kindergarten

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Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

*Sigh*, what is so hard to understand about it? Teachers do read alouds on a daily basis. However,once in awhile, the book is not available to them physically, so on occasion, they will find a Youtube video of someone that is doing a read aloud. THE HORROR.....

So many people here simply choose not to use their brains and instead just decide something is "bad"when they have no idea what they are talking about. It's embarrassing.

It’s not hard to understand, but some people would prefer the teacher just read a physical book. Like, choose a different one.

It's like you're not even listening to what people are saying. 99% of the time teachers are reading aloud to their students. Once in awhile, they want to read a book that is relevant to what they are teaching but don't have physical access to the book, so they use a Youtube read-aloud. Hardly the crisis situation you seem to think it is. You sound like a petulant child though.. "like..choose a different one *pouts*" Grow up and join the rest of us in the year 2022, where sometimes (NOT ALWAYS) but once in awhile, we use technology.

You sound very intent on justifying use of screens!

You sound like an idiot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

How's the school librarian it is definitely a frustrating conversation I keep having with coworkers about how
- these videos are a copyright violation
- by and large these are safe videos to watch but you have no control if you don't at least pre-watch them

- technically teachers are not really supposed to be showing kids YouTube without embedding the video somewhere else first so that way you can control for commercials or other videos being shown on YouTube on sidebars or other places and a lot of teachers don't bother with that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

*Sigh*, what is so hard to understand about it? Teachers do read alouds on a daily basis. However,once in awhile, the book is not available to them physically, so on occasion, they will find a Youtube video of someone that is doing a read aloud. THE HORROR.....

So many people here simply choose not to use their brains and instead just decide something is "bad"when they have no idea what they are talking about. It's embarrassing.

It’s not hard to understand, but some people would prefer the teacher just read a physical book. Like, choose a different one.

I just posted about the benefit of seeing the words in big print. Tell me the benefits of the teacher reading the physical book and the kids not seeing the text.

I could care less if my kid gets 10% more sight words crammed in in a day. Would much rather she get to relax and enjoy a story read by her teacher. Truly don’t get why this is hard to understand. Kindergartners are there to build connections, learn social/life skills and develop a love of learning. Of course they get a lower quality experience from screens.

Get with the times the emphasis is now on phonics not whole words

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

How's the school librarian it is definitely a frustrating conversation I keep having with coworkers about how
- these videos are a copyright violation
- by and large these are safe videos to watch but you have no control if you don't at least pre-watch them

- technically teachers are not really supposed to be showing kids YouTube without embedding the video somewhere else first so that way you can control for commercials or other videos being shown on YouTube on sidebars or other places and a lot of teachers don't bother with that

What’s particularly crazy is that sometimes after a YouTube video, you’ll end up with a screen full of (sometimes inappropriate) screen shots of other possible videos. I mean, that’s what YouTube does because they want you to keep watching.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

*Sigh*, what is so hard to understand about it? Teachers do read alouds on a daily basis. However,once in awhile, the book is not available to them physically, so on occasion, they will find a Youtube video of someone that is doing a read aloud. THE HORROR.....

So many people here simply choose not to use their brains and instead just decide something is "bad"when they have no idea what they are talking about. It's embarrassing.

It’s not hard to understand, but some people would prefer the teacher just read a physical book. Like, choose a different one.

I just posted about the benefit of seeing the words in big print. Tell me the benefits of the teacher reading the physical book and the kids not seeing the text.

I could care less if my kid gets 10% more sight words crammed in in a day. Would much rather she get to relax and enjoy a story read by her teacher. Truly don’t get why this is hard to understand. Kindergartners are there to build connections, learn social/life skills and develop a love of learning. Of course they get a lower quality experience from screens.

Get with the times the emphasis is now on phonics not whole words

lol MCPS only started paying attention to phonics this school year when someone finally woke up that benchmark sucks. My DC is in 1st grade and last year there was a huge emphasis on sight words. Just because they brought in RGR doesn’t mean they’ve gotten rid of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

*Sigh*, what is so hard to understand about it? Teachers do read alouds on a daily basis. However,once in awhile, the book is not available to them physically, so on occasion, they will find a Youtube video of someone that is doing a read aloud. THE HORROR.....

So many people here simply choose not to use their brains and instead just decide something is "bad"when they have no idea what they are talking about. It's embarrassing.

It’s not hard to understand, but some people would prefer the teacher just read a physical book. Like, choose a different one.

It's like you're not even listening to what people are saying. 99% of the time teachers are reading aloud to their students. Once in awhile, they want to read a book that is relevant to what they are teaching but don't have physical access to the book, so they use a Youtube read-aloud. Hardly the crisis situation you seem to think it is. You sound like a petulant child though.. "like..choose a different one *pouts*" Grow up and join the rest of us in the year 2022, where sometimes (NOT ALWAYS) but once in awhile, we use technology.

Para here and I’d say the split is closer to 75/25. Like someone else noted, the use of videos has certainly proliferated since March 2020 in our building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling bullsh@! on you being a teacher OP. If you were, you’d know that children are not the most reliable narrators. You’d also know how to go about getting a better sense from the teacher themselves.
All that said, I see teachers relying on videos for read alouds more frequently now than a few years ago. I think part of it is due to resources they developed during virtual instruction and hard copies of books not being available (in classroom/school library) so it’s easier to find a video then look for an alternative title that fits their need.
Again, if you were a classroom teacher I think you’d understand this.
—elementary teacher

This seems like a ridiculous reason/excuse to not read to the kids.

*Sigh*, what is so hard to understand about it? Teachers do read alouds on a daily basis. However,once in awhile, the book is not available to them physically, so on occasion, they will find a Youtube video of someone that is doing a read aloud. THE HORROR.....

So many people here simply choose not to use their brains and instead just decide something is "bad"when they have no idea what they are talking about. It's embarrassing.

It’s not hard to understand, but some people would prefer the teacher just read a physical book. Like, choose a different one.

It's like you're not even listening to what people are saying. 99% of the time teachers are reading aloud to their students. Once in awhile, they want to read a book that is relevant to what they are teaching but don't have physical access to the book, so they use a Youtube read-aloud. Hardly the crisis situation you seem to think it is. You sound like a petulant child though.. "like..choose a different one *pouts*" Grow up and join the rest of us in the year 2022, where sometimes (NOT ALWAYS) but once in awhile, we use technology.

Para here and I’d say the split is closer to 75/25. Like someone else noted, the use of videos has certainly proliferated since March 2020 in our building.

Yeah - that is more believable.

[Anonymous]

I love Obama but this is the worst part of his legacy. The idea that technology strengthens the school experience. Even if 10% of the time it is useful, what a huge loss overall. So many missed interpersonal connections, so many missed *neural* connections when paper, pencil and hand are pushed to the side. So much habituation to instant gratification. We are creating a generation of screen addicts with poor eyesight and no patience.

To those of you advocating for a readaloud on screen, do you not get what’s missing? The physical closeness of the teacher surrounded by a semicircle of kids. Getting to know and love your teacher’s reading voice. Kids jockeying to see better, strengthening their negotiating and self advocacy skills—and their eyesight. The reverence for a tangible product rather than a screen. Teacher slowing down to answer questions with no glitches or blue light. Also, kids benefit from repeating the same books and daily chapters from a long book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Obama but this is the worst part of his legacy. The idea that technology strengthens the school experience. Even if 10% of the time it is useful, what a huge loss overall. So many missed interpersonal connections, so many missed *neural* connections when paper, pencil and hand are pushed to the side. So much habituation to instant gratification. We are creating a generation of screen addicts with poor eyesight and no patience.

To those of you advocating for a readaloud on screen, do you not get what’s missing? The physical closeness of the teacher surrounded by a semicircle of kids. Getting to know and love your teacher’s reading voice. Kids jockeying to see better, strengthening their negotiating and self advocacy skills—and their eyesight. The reverence for a tangible product rather than a screen. Teacher slowing down to answer questions with no glitches or blue light. Also, kids benefit from repeating the same books and daily chapters from a long book.

Well said.

Especially in the younger grades. Kids in K and 1st grade would be happy to play games or do puzzles or color or play with LEGOs during indoor recess. But it’s easier and quieter to throw on a video, so that’s what happens.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile the savvier privates, like NPS, have zero screens in K and 1 and then shift into a digital citizenship class model. That’s the ideal medium—not denying technology a la Waldorf but not taking the easy way out.

[Anonymous]

This may be a dumb question, but can teachers take books out of the public library? The local ones let you take out dozens and keep them for ages.

I use YouTube readalouds to source and preview new books. But I’m not showing them to my five-year-old. The minimal screen time she gets is for content I can’t deliver some other way—the relaxation of an animated Room on the Broom or an old Mr. Rogers touring a factory.

[Anonymous]

Homeschool your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Obama but this is the worst part of his legacy. The idea that technology strengthens the school experience. Even if 10% of the time it is useful, what a huge loss overall. So many missed interpersonal connections, so many missed *neural* connections when paper, pencil and hand are pushed to the side. So much habituation to instant gratification. We are creating a generation of screen addicts with poor eyesight and no patience.

To those of you advocating for a readaloud on screen, do you not get what’s missing? The physical closeness of the teacher surrounded by a semicircle of kids. Getting to know and love your teacher’s reading voice. Kids jockeying to see better, strengthening their negotiating and self advocacy skills—and their eyesight. The reverence for a tangible product rather than a screen. Teacher slowing down to answer questions with no glitches or blue light. Also, kids benefit from repeating the same books and daily chapters from a long book.

+1000!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the savvier privates, like NPS, have zero screens in K and 1 and then shift into a digital citizenship class model. That’s the ideal medium—not denying technology a la Waldorf but not taking the easy way out.

This is a reasonable approach. Really no reason for screens in K and 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Obama but this is the worst part of his legacy. The idea that technology strengthens the school experience. Even if 10% of the time it is useful, what a huge loss overall. So many missed interpersonal connections, so many missed *neural* connections when paper, pencil and hand are pushed to the side. So much habituation to instant gratification. We are creating a generation of screen addicts with poor eyesight and no patience.

To those of you advocating for a readaloud on screen, do you not get what’s missing? The physical closeness of the teacher surrounded by a semicircle of kids. Getting to know and love your teacher’s reading voice. Kids jockeying to see better, strengthening their negotiating and self advocacy skills—and their eyesight. The reverence for a tangible product rather than a screen. Teacher slowing down to answer questions with no glitches or blue light. Also, kids benefit from repeating the same books and daily chapters from a long book.

Well said.

Especially in the younger grades. Kids in K and 1st grade would be happy to play games or do puzzles or color or play with LEGOs during indoor recess. But it’s easier and quieter to throw on a video, so that’s what happens.

My first grader gets toys every time there's indoor recess, I've never heard her mention a video and she's very excited to tell me about any videos they watch ever.