Screen time in elementary schools

[Anonymous]

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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

+1, the PP’s post above is the WORST case scenario. I project slides in the board. Otherwise they may be on ST Math 10 minutes a day, they take iReady twice (4 hours all year) and have done about 10 horizons tests ALL year. I do have one student that reads in MyOn a couple times a week, the others prefer paper books. That’s it. (ES Teacher)

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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

Same for me

[Anonymous]

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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

we don’t use composition books for the subjects, rather they use ‘digital notebooks’

[Anonymous]

The music teacher starts showing a movie over multiple days to finish it. The art teacher does the same. This is in addition to the home room teacher and the House movies. So, the movies are not coming from the same teacher or class but is additive screen time if one were to take a central view.

[Anonymous]

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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

Why do you not use Lucy Caulkins?

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Anonymous wrote:The music teacher starts showing a movie over multiple days to finish it. The art teacher does the same. This is in addition to the home room teacher and the House movies. So, the movies are not coming from the same teacher or class but is additive screen time if one were to take a central view.

Why are the music and art teacher showing movies? They are not affected by SOLs…

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Anonymous wrote:It's awful, OP. Laptops are now a crutch being used all day long. MY KIDS TOOK THEIR LAPTOPS TO PE.

yep. Kids are taking laptops to PE and music class. 4 th grade

Like most other topics here, it varies. That's not happening at our school.

You only know what happens in your own child's class or your own classroom if you teach.

Next year, your child could have the Laptop Lady.

PP here. I’m a teacher. I have never seen a class take laptops to PE, music or art. I’m definitely aware of that beyond my own classroom.

Happened at my child's FCPS ES. Multiple times.

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The kids have to take assessments in PE, too. Especially when they are covering health. They do the assessments online. It's not like they watch videos on their laptops in PE every day. Stop being obtuse.

My child says they have watched youtube videos in PE.

If PE teachers need to give tests (which I have never heard of in ES), there is no reason those can't be on paper.

The issue seems to be that no one is making any effort to reduce the use of laptops.

There could be 60-100 kids per grade on paper-assuming it’s one page. That is a waste of paper.

Education is not a waste of paper. If whatever this assessment is the PE teachers must give is important, then the use of paper is justified.
If its not worth the hassle of the pe teacher making copies and grading, then its probably not important.

Our school did not have 1-1 devices in any grade pre-covid. Laptops were never used in specials and only occassionally in the class.

Tell me you NOT a teacher without telling me your not a teacher.

“You’re” misspelled twice by (presumably) a teacher… sigh…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The music teacher starts showing a movie over multiple days to finish it. The art teacher does the same. This is in addition to the home room teacher and the House movies. So, the movies are not coming from the same teacher or class but is additive screen time if one were to take a central view.

+1 combined with Annie&moby, goNoodle, Shawn the sheep, audio storybook being read, and other short films in the subjects, plus social-emotional vid, etc. it adds up to a lot of screen time.

[Anonymous]

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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

Why do you not use Lucy Caulkins?

I don’t know why we don’t. It’s just never been a “thing” in my school. I hear bits and pieces here and there, but I don’t know much about her.

[Anonymous]

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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

we don’t use composition books for the subjects, rather they use ‘digital notebooks’

PP here.
I understand. We used those when everyone was online. We are back to composition notebooks now.