Screen time in elementary schools

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Anonymous wrote:They use their laptops in LA, math, SS, Sci, PE, and music. In addition, the teacher will show shorts and small movies as part of their instruction.

Teachers have been showing videos as part of instruction for AT LEAST a decade. There in 3-5 min in ES and up to 15 min in MS. It’s fine.

My 5th grader is on her laptop all day long. it's ridiculous. There's a youtube channel the teacher uses for math instruction. They do ST Math. The math "textbook" is "digital". They have "digital notebooks" for science and google slides for language arts. It is really enraging, to be honest. And my older dc had the same exact teacher pre-covid and it was normal school. This is all post-covid.

what school? this is awful.

yes, digital notebooks are a carryover from the virtual year. Very easy for teacher. The slides are already done. 4th grade uses Google slides for Soc Studies—VA studies. ‘What do you think? What do you wonder? Slides’ to ad nauseam…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG just stay in your precious private school, PLEASE.

Stop it. It is cheaper than daycare. Also, I needed to work. There is no way I could have done virtual school with two grades with one being in kindergarten. I had to stay employed. I am divorced and ex and I coparent. Shut up.

FCPS was in person this year, crazy lady.

No kidding. But I did not know in August if they were going to STAY in person or have shut downs right and left. They were closed for in person school for a year plus spring 2020. I could not risk them going virtual again so my kids stayed in the tiny private that was started due to covid nearby.

Just admit that you had a pod with a private teacher, LOL!

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The laptops are used so often in every class that the kids say it is best to not turn it off bc the reload takes too long.

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Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

+1 even music and art classes become movies

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

I love DCUM. Showing 1-2 movies and showing movies every day post SOLs are completely different things. But you all don’t act like it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

+1 even music and art classes become movies

I have been teaching for ten years. Usually a movie is shown after field day and that is it. I have never seen any teacher show multiple movies the last two weeks of school. If this is happening, contact your principal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

+1 even music and art classes become movies

I have been teaching for ten years. Usually a movie is shown after field day and that is it. I have never seen any teacher show multiple movies the last two weeks of school. If this is happening, contact your principal.

My child had subs for the entire month of January because their teacher was out sick -- the subs showed movies every. single. day. And they wonder why my kid doesn't know multiplication....it's because they skipped the entire unit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

+1 even music and art classes become movies

I have been teaching for ten years. Usually a movie is shown after field day and that is it. I have never seen any teacher show multiple movies the last two weeks of school. If this is happening, contact your principal.

My child had subs for the entire month of January because their teacher was out sick -- the subs showed movies every. single. day. And they wonder why my kid doesn't know multiplication....it's because they skipped the entire unit!

Having a rotation of subs with little structure (because of the rotation) is very different than the same teacher being there every day - regarding watching movies - but you know that. You just want to make your one-off experience seem like the norm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

+1 even music and art classes become movies

I have been teaching for ten years. Usually a movie is shown after field day and that is it. I have never seen any teacher show multiple movies the last two weeks of school. If this is happening, contact your principal.

My child had subs for the entire month of January because their teacher was out sick -- the subs showed movies every. single. day. And they wonder why my kid doesn't know multiplication....it's because they skipped the entire unit!

This is a school failure. My child had a sub from Sept- Feb and the team did the plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

Not me - we're going to keep working hard right up until the end.

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No one central source is counting minutes on screens. LA uses screens for Lucy Calkins slides and for reading rotations where student could choose audio book or iReady, etc. SS uses digital notebook, Google slides, and digital textbook. It also uses Kahoot or Quiziz(sp?) leading up to tests about every 2 weeks. Sci uses Google slides and digital notebook and short movies. Math uses Dreambox, iReady, sT math, and Google slides. The quick checks, Horizon tests, check-ins, etc. are all on the computer. So, yes, a huge % of the day is on the computer or in front of some screen. No textbooks exist, aside from the digital Soc Studies one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG just stay in your precious private school, PLEASE.

Stop it. It is cheaper than daycare. Also, I needed to work. There is no way I could have done virtual school with two grades with one being in kindergarten. I had to stay employed. I am divorced and ex and I coparent. Shut up.

FCPS was in person this year, crazy lady.

No kidding. But I did not know in August if they were going to STAY in person or have shut downs right and left. They were closed for in person school for a year plus spring 2020. I could not risk them going virtual again so my kids stayed in the tiny private that was started due to covid nearby.

Just admit that you had a pod with a private teacher, LOL!

What? They had a K. They started 1-3 due to parents asking (I asked and called other parents). There are 150 students. This year is 4th. Next year they are going to 6th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plus, teachers will start their annual movies soon —right after SOLs until the end of the year.

Not me - we're going to keep working hard right up until the end.

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I don’t know anyone who does this. We are just now starting our last science and social studies units. We have a writing unit to finish and one in health we haven’t started. In reading we are introducing series book clubs. In between I have to work in iReady, DSA (spelling) and the DRA Progress Monitor for every student. We’ll probably watch a movie the last day as part of our EOY party.

At some point I’ll have to get grades done and the room packed, but we aren’t showing movies.

ES Teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one central source is counting minutes on screens. LA uses screens for Lucy Calkins slides and for reading rotations where student could choose audio book or iReady, etc. SS uses digital notebook, Google slides, and digital textbook. It also uses Kahoot or Quiziz(sp?) leading up to tests about every 2 weeks. Sci uses Google slides and digital notebook and short movies. Math uses Dreambox, iReady, sT math, and Google slides. The quick checks, Horizon tests, check-ins, etc. are all on the computer. So, yes, a huge % of the day is on the computer or in front of some screen. No textbooks exist, aside from the digital Soc Studies one.

That sounds like a lot. Much more than we use. I don’t use Lucy Calkins, let alone have slides. We only did iReady screener in the fall and will take it again this month. The science kits do have slides that I project, but the work and experiments are hands on. We have composition notebooks for math, reading, writing and science. I do use ST Math as a math station, but each student rotates through once a week. MyOn and Tumblebook Library are options that some choose during independent reading. We have days during which many students don’t even turn on their computers.

I thought we no longer had Dreambox.

Grade 3 Teacher