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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, DCI is middle and upper school.  By the time your kids are in 6th or 7th grade they will be dealing with a tsunami of technology and social media.  Even if they don't personally have smartphones, their friends will.  Just accepting that this is happening and helping to guide kids to use technology appropriately can be a huge benefit to the kid and to the parents.

Second, if the kids don't have their own devices, a lof of school time will be spent pushing around carts of laptops and students powering them up and down.  Worse yet, a computer lab that kids go to to do work-- waste of time.  When kids carry around their own devices they incorporate them into the curriculum.  Teachers plan for computer use and it's fairer for all kids, esp those who couldn't afford a computer and internet at home.

It's for these reasons that most private middle school programs are all moving to 1:1 device programs.  This is the future.  And for any of you with kids who have organizational problems, ADHD, executive function issues, etc., you'll see that technology will make everything much, much easier.  No more lost assignments, no more loose papers, multiple folders, books, etc.  It's all on one device.

It's also more environmental.  Why print out a finished assignment for the teacher?  Just email it.  It won't get lost, the teacher can annotate it and email it back.  Less paper and ink used.

My DC was in a private school for middle school and used an ipad throughout.  Many parents were skeptical and some were downright upset, but in the end the parents overwhelmingly supported the program for the reasons above.  And after a while the ipad wasn't the coolest thing ever.  The kids got used to it and it stopped being the focus.

I personally think DCI is ahead of the curve.  [/quote]

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