Screen guidelines in the classroom

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

Not true.

Many, many many did. My 5th grader looked at hundreds of pages of website PER DAY usually that year, and never brought home paper work. He barely learned anything that entire year, which was unfortunate b/c 4th grade was obviously a lost year as well.

+1 my child’s teacher (the first year kids were back in person full time) had all worksheets posted online - refused to hand out hard copies. It was ridiculous.

Getting copier paper can be quite a battle sometimes. Many schools limit how much a teacher can have or they limit the number of copies per teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Nope, this is our school. Sooo much laptop use since Covid. I honestly feel like the teachers scanned everything in they used to have on paper or bought TPT google slides (or those terrible Gatehouse Covid slides) and it was just easier to keep using them.

Kids needs to solve math problems on paper with a pencil to learn.

You can practice with them at home with paper and pencil.

And what about the families that expect the schools to teach? Just let those kids not learn?

Find a better solution. Such as reducing screen time in the classroom.

But that solution isn’t realistic with where public education is moving towards in the future - so find the best one that also aligns with that.

Dp. So you think public education is moving toward being just childcare and parents are expected to educate their children at home? Or send your kid to private where they actually teach math?

It’s moving away from paper/pencil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

Not true.

Many, many many did. My 5th grader looked at hundreds of pages of website PER DAY usually that year, and never brought home paper work. He barely learned anything that entire year, which was unfortunate b/c 4th grade was obviously a lost year as well.

This is most likely because your child is off task. Maybe some consequences for not doing assignments would be in order? Do you think he/she would be on task if there were no computers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

Not true.

Many, many many did. My 5th grader looked at hundreds of pages of website PER DAY usually that year, and never brought home paper work. He barely learned anything that entire year, which was unfortunate b/c 4th grade was obviously a lost year as well.

This is most likely because your child is off task. Maybe some consequences for not doing assignments would be in order? Do you think he/she would be on task if there were no computers?

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Nope, this is our school. Sooo much laptop use since Covid. I honestly feel like the teachers scanned everything in they used to have on paper or bought TPT google slides (or those terrible Gatehouse Covid slides) and it was just easier to keep using them.

Kids needs to solve math problems on paper with a pencil to learn.

You can practice with them at home with paper and pencil.

You are totally missing the point. It took the kids 4x longer for them to do this on the Google side vs. Pencil and paper. The kids kept fussing around with the little boxes and it wasn't working properly. That time can be spent teaching more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Nope, this is our school. Sooo much laptop use since Covid. I honestly feel like the teachers scanned everything in they used to have on paper or bought TPT google slides (or those terrible Gatehouse Covid slides) and it was just easier to keep using them.

Kids needs to solve math problems on paper with a pencil to learn.

You can practice with them at home with paper and pencil.

You are totally missing the point. It took the kids 4x longer for them to do this on the Google side vs. Pencil and paper. The kids kept fussing around with the little boxes and it wasn't working properly. That time can be spent teaching more.

Just have them do it on paper and either upload the picture or turn it in to the teacher. After 1 time of wasting 4 hours, find a new solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Nope, this is our school. Sooo much laptop use since Covid. I honestly feel like the teachers scanned everything in they used to have on paper or bought TPT google slides (or those terrible Gatehouse Covid slides) and it was just easier to keep using them.

Kids needs to solve math problems on paper with a pencil to learn.

You can practice with them at home with paper and pencil.

And what about the families that expect the schools to teach? Just let those kids not learn?

Find a better solution. Such as reducing screen time in the classroom.

But that solution isn’t realistic with where public education is moving towards in the future - so find the best one that also aligns with that.

Dp. So you think public education is moving toward being just childcare and parents are expected to educate their children at home? Or send your kid to private where they actually teach math?

+1000
Bingo, public school is daycare, private or homeschool is education.

[Anonymous]

I’m curious as to what the actual recommendations were for each grade level -the article didn’t say except none until last quarter of K. Something like max 1 hr/day for grades 1-2, max 2 hrs/day grades 3-5 etc?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m curious as to what the actual recommendations were for each grade level -the article didn’t say except none until last quarter of K. Something like max 1 hr/day for grades 1-2, max 2 hrs/day grades 3-5 etc?

Article didn’t say, you could email the committee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Nope, this is our school. Sooo much laptop use since Covid. I honestly feel like the teachers scanned everything in they used to have on paper or bought TPT google slides (or those terrible Gatehouse Covid slides) and it was just easier to keep using them.

Kids needs to solve math problems on paper with a pencil to learn.

You can practice with them at home with paper and pencil.

You are totally missing the point. It took the kids 4x longer for them to do this on the Google side vs. Pencil and paper. The kids kept fussing around with the little boxes and it wasn't working properly. That time can be spent teaching more.

Just have them do it on paper and either upload the picture or turn it in to the teacher. After 1 time of wasting 4 hours, find a new solution.

It was an in class task that involved lots of dragging of boxes. My kid was frustrated with it and did not finish. I wound up just having dc do it on paper and I did the box dragging. Total waste of time. Why don't we have a math workbook?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Just your school. My kids are doing math on paper. Very few online assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Nope, this is our school. Sooo much laptop use since Covid. I honestly feel like the teachers scanned everything in they used to have on paper or bought TPT google slides (or those terrible Gatehouse Covid slides) and it was just easier to keep using them.

Kids needs to solve math problems on paper with a pencil to learn.

You can practice with them at home with paper and pencil.

You are totally missing the point. It took the kids 4x longer for them to do this on the Google side vs. Pencil and paper. The kids kept fussing around with the little boxes and it wasn't working properly. That time can be spent teaching more.

Just have them do it on paper and either upload the picture or turn it in to the teacher. After 1 time of wasting 4 hours, find a new solution.

It was an in class task that involved lots of dragging of boxes. My kid was frustrated with it and did not finish. I wound up just having dc do it on paper and I did the box dragging. Total waste of time. Why don't we have a math workbook?

+1 we had the same issue. Maybe we were at the same school?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

Not true.

Many, many many did. My 5th grader looked at hundreds of pages of website PER DAY usually that year, and never brought home paper work. He barely learned anything that entire year, which was unfortunate b/c 4th grade was obviously a lost year as well.

+1 my child’s teacher (the first year kids were back in person full time) had all worksheets posted online - refused to hand out hard copies. It was ridiculous.

Getting copier paper can be quite a battle sometimes. Many schools limit how much a teacher can have or they limit the number of copies per teacher.

This wasn’t the case. Teacher preferred it online as it was “easier.” Parents even offered to supply copier paper bc they were desperate. Eventually the principal was involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher 1:1 devices is one of the worst things schools have done. I wish they’d collect them all and move away from digital platforms. That is not how children learn.

Covid/virtual learning exacerbated this too. All the teachers continued using their slide decks for units the following year (2021-2022 year) once the kids came back in person full time.

Not true.

Many, many many did. My 5th grader looked at hundreds of pages of website PER DAY usually that year, and never brought home paper work. He barely learned anything that entire year, which was unfortunate b/c 4th grade was obviously a lost year as well.

This is most likely because your child is off task. Maybe some consequences for not doing assignments would be in order? Do you think he/she would be on task if there were no computers?

All the tasks were on computers. No paper work came home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I recall when my kids were learning addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and they had them do it on Google slides and it took sooo much longer to do it this way. There were several other instances of Google math slides that just took so much longer than it would had it been on regular paper. Also is it just at our school or is 3rd grade very Google slides and videos heavy with very little teaching?

Just your school. My kids are doing math on paper. Very few online assignments.

You never know, you might get her kid's teacher next year. Teachers have incredible leeway in how they teach or don't teach.