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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has severe ADHD, and in school, took Adderall and had an IEP.  He's now in college but he never got into trouble for looking at stuff he shouldn't be looking at in MCPS K-12. At home, he would sit at the dining room table so we could monitor his screen as we walked past his chair behind him. He often needed redirection from watching stupid Youtube videos, but the alternative was a med booster in the afternoon, which messed with his sleep.

Some of it is parenting. Some of it is meds. Some of it is brain maturity. You're going to have to deal with this until he can self-regulate better.[/quote]

I really hate posts like this. "My kid didn't have this problem, so it must be your fault that your child does."

Great for you that your child's ADHD didn't cause him to impulsively misuse computers. But others with ADHD are different.[/quote]

Especially considering that the issue goes FAR beyond kids looking at YouTube videos at home instead of doing homework. Things have changed since PP’s child was in elementary and now the issue is that not only do kids have the distraction element but they also have all the instruction online using terrible algorithmic based programs.

About the only Ed tech I’ve seen that is decent is Reading Plus, which my kid gets assigned weekly. It is fairly well designed and he seems to learn some good vocabulary. That said, I’m not convinced that he wouldn’t learn better with old-fashioned vocabulary tests on paper. I suspect he would. But apparently the school district mandates use of Reading Plus. Otherwise this particular teacher has banned all tech from her class which I think is great.

I would be overjoyed if we got rid of all ed tech in schools other than pure word processing. [/quote]

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