Would an Alexa be a good classroom gift?

[Anonymous]

I have kids in preschool and elementary. Don’t think any of the classrooms have an Alexa.

Would this be a good holiday gift? Thinking of giving everyone one with an amazon gift card.

[Anonymous]

You’re kidding, right?

[Anonymous]

oh hell no

[Anonymous]

I'm not even sure an Alexa would be allowed at our preschool and elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re kidding, right?

Was not kidding. Thought teacher may want to play some music easily during class.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

No!

[Anonymous]

no no no no no

Alexa at my house with a 7 year old and a friend over gets a work out. The song requests, stupid jokes, simon says, and other activities cause me to feel pity for the poor contraption. I cannot imagine how awfully it would be used in a classroom, never mind a classroom that has a kid named Alex or Alexandria or Alexa in the classroom.

Just no

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher, not sure what the opposition is. Almost every teacher in our MCPS elem. has an alexa/echo/google home/ whatever. For music, for asking random questions, for playing a timer, they're great.

[Anonymous]

No way in hell. I would NOT be happy with Amazon listening in on my child’s classroom, or with Alexa responding (possibly inappropriately) to every random question that kids ask.

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t the kids be yelling at Alexa all day?

[Anonymous]

What kind of teacher do you guys envision that doesn't have the classroom control to manage it? And newsflash, like PP teacher, most of them already have something like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, not sure what the opposition is. Almost every teacher in our MCPS elem. has an alexa/echo/google home/ whatever. For music, for asking random questions, for playing a timer, they're great.

Privacy issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher, not sure what the opposition is. Almost every teacher in our MCPS elem. has an alexa/echo/google home/ whatever. For music, for asking random questions, for playing a timer, they're great.

Privacy issues.

Just texted my friend in a DC private, and another in Memphis. Both have them and most of their schools do too. I think y'all are delightfully uninformed as most teachers do use these.