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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to know whether people think that EdTech is more harmful during the elementary years or middle school years. I accept that screens will be ubiquitious by 8th grade, but trying to decide what to do up to that point. We pulled DS out of public school during early elementary school in large part due to EdTech. He's now in a religious private and learning with pencil and paper.[/quote]

By 6th sixth grade our public schools use Chromebooks for some subjects.  Obviously they use pencil and paper for math and paper back novels to bring home but some of the content on Chromebook is superior to just reading a textbook.   One example I did with my son was from, not PBS but a similar type of programs on world geography.    After studying the countries within each continent the studies ended with a program that had 
15 to 20:minute summarizations of each country.  This was followed by questions on the summary they just watched.  There was no skipping around, no cheating, no copying.

There are some quality educational productions offered. I don’t understand why so many want to go back in time. A lot of projects they do are printed out and on Chrome.

And cursive needs to be abolished.   I was trying to read my doctor’s note on a referral and couldn’t.  It was chicken scratch cursive.   Very few adults are good at making cursive legible.   [/quote]

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