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.

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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.

I send in reams of paler with my kids. Anything to get them off screens.

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Catholic school did most things on paper, including note taking, writing drafts and all math calculations below geometry. My kid learned so much more in 1 year than the years on fcps computers. The instruction was closer to what my oldest kid learned a few years back when the school had a cart of laptops that each grade shared for special assignments.

Ditch the laptops in elementary school and go back to books and paper.

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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.

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.

We shouldn’t have to translate it down on paper and then take a pic and “upload it” either. Ridiculous. The teacher should hand out the freaking worksheet on paper and pencil to begin with. This is the perfect example of using technology for the sake of technology, rather than the technology improves the teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Catholic school did most things on paper, including note taking, writing drafts and all math calculations below geometry. My kid learned so much more in 1 year than the years on fcps computers. The instruction was closer to what my oldest kid learned a few years back when the school had a cart of laptops that each grade shared for special assignments.

Ditch the laptops in elementary school and go back to books and paper.

I hate ipads and screen time, but hate molestation more, so Catholic is out for my family. I grew up in Baltimore though, but I’m still not ready to trust them.


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