How much screentime is your child getting in K-1?

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Anonymous wrote:Grades K-3 shouldn't be spending any time on computers. They should be given books instead. FCPS has become so incredibly lazy.

Ha! We have Lexia now and required 60 minutes a week. Kindergarten has iPads this year.

I'm a parent and I think Lexia is at least much better than the stuff they used last year for language arts. Imagine Learning or whatever. At least Lexia is truly educational.

[Anonymous]

My son HATES Lexia but likes ST Math. Overall, I’m very disappointed about the amount of time that the kids are spending on their iPads in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Grades K-3 shouldn't be spending any time on computers. They should be given books instead. FCPS has become so incredibly lazy.

This is not specific to FCPS. It's education today. I disagree with it vehemently, but teachers are now being told what to do with students so much more often than parents think. And because of this, students are becoming very resistant and disruptive when faced with to non-technology based lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son HATES Lexia but likes ST Math. Overall, I’m very disappointed about the amount of time that the kids are spending on their iPads in Kindergarten.

How often? We are typically 15-20 minutes a day.

[Anonymous]

Lots. They use the screen to air Go Noodle for breaks, too. They use the big screen for lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots. They use the screen to air Go Noodle for breaks, too. They use the big screen for lessons.

I always wondered if this is the same screen time as and iPad or computer. In a teacher’s defense many smart boards took away white board space for writing with markers and even demonstrating something with the document camera is in the smart board. And most lessons from the county are google slide based.

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I absolutely hate the Google-based slide shows teachers are expected to trot out every day. Teaching was so much more effective simply writing/demonstrating using the whiteboard. There is invariably a tech problem at least once a day, which delays everything when a subject could have been so much more effectively and efficiently without tech. I often use one of those giant pads of paper on an easel.

[Anonymous]

I wish we could remove the smart board. We can project to a white board and don’t need the smart board. Then we would have access to a white board easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades K-3 shouldn't be spending any time on computers. They should be given books instead. FCPS has become so incredibly lazy.

Ha! We have Lexia now and required 60 minutes a week. Kindergarten has iPads this year.

Are you saying this is a good thing? Because it's not.

OK, whiners. Feel free to homeschool, where you can flush all technology down the toilet and order those sweet, sweet 1980s textbooks you so fervently pine for. You can do it around your work schedule. Of course that means you’ll have to hire a babysitter while you work, but as you haughtily insisted throughout COVID “iT’s nOt aBoUt cHiLdCaRe!! IT’s aBoUT eDuCaTiOn,” remember?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish we could remove the smart board. We can project to a white board and don’t need the smart board. Then we would have access to a white board easier.

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I can't tell you how often the tech person has to come fix some glitch with the stupid projector and/or smart board. Wish we could just get back to basics. There's no need for all of this tech in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades K-3 shouldn't be spending any time on computers. They should be given books instead. FCPS has become so incredibly lazy.

Ha! We have Lexia now and required 60 minutes a week. Kindergarten has iPads this year.

Are you saying this is a good thing? Because it's not.

OK, whiners. Feel free to homeschool, where you can flush all technology down the toilet and order those sweet, sweet 1980s textbooks you so fervently pine for. You can do it around your work schedule. Of course that means you’ll have to hire a babysitter while you work, but as you haughtily insisted throughout COVID “iT’s nOt aBoUt cHiLdCaRe!! IT’s aBoUT eDuCaTiOn,” remember?

Wow, you sound charming. Yes, give me a good textbook any day over computer-based assignments. Btw, no one said to "flush all technology down the toilet." But the reliance on tech at school to the point where textbooks aren't used in many schools?? No thanks. My class loves reading aloud. FROM ACTUAL BOOKS.

[Anonymous]

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I can't tell you how often the tech person has to come fix some glitch with the stupid projector and/or smart board. Wish we could just get back to basics. There's no need for all of this tech in the classroom.

Yep. When interactive boards were first rolled out, they were truly interactive and teachers were given lots training on how to create interactive activities with them. However, those are time-consuming to create, and over the past ten years as students got access to computers and iPads that have interactive activities, the boards have (understandably) become basically just computer projectors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

+1
I can't tell you how often the tech person has to come fix some glitch with the stupid projector and/or smart board. Wish we could just get back to basics. There's no need for all of this tech in the classroom.

Yep. When interactive boards were first rolled out, they were truly interactive and teachers were given lots training on how to create interactive activities with them. However, those are time-consuming to create, and over the past ten years as students got access to computers and iPads that have interactive activities, the boards have (understandably) become basically just computer projectors.

Many of us started with SMART boards which have been taken out an replaced with cheaper projectors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grades K-3 shouldn't be spending any time on computers. They should be given books instead. FCPS has become so incredibly lazy.

Ha! We have Lexia now and required 60 minutes a week. Kindergarten has iPads this year.

Are you saying this is a good thing? Because it's not.

OK, whiners. Feel free to homeschool, where you can flush all technology down the toilet and order those sweet, sweet 1980s textbooks you so fervently pine for. You can do it around your work schedule. Of course that means you’ll have to hire a babysitter while you work, but as you haughtily insisted throughout COVID “iT’s nOt aBoUt cHiLdCaRe!! IT’s aBoUT eDuCaTiOn,” remember?

Wow are you a delight. They're using excellent textbooks at my son's Catholic school which I pay less than $10k a year for. Another well-behaved 99th percentile kid pulled out of the public system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1
I can't tell you how often the tech person has to come fix some glitch with the stupid projector and/or smart board. Wish we could just get back to basics. There's no need for all of this tech in the classroom.

Yep. When interactive boards were first rolled out, they were truly interactive and teachers were given lots training on how to create interactive activities with them. However, those are time-consuming to create, and over the past ten years as students got access to computers and iPads that have interactive activities, the boards have (understandably) become basically just computer projectors.

Many of us started with SMART boards which have been taken out an replaced with cheaper projectors.

I got the projector in the ceiling which I love but would be fine losing the smart board.