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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just smart phones and social media. A lot of these losses are happening among elementary age kids who don't have access to either. But the reliance on Ed Tech to teach math and reading is a big problem. Blaming screens at home doesn't make sense because kids have been watching screens at home for decades, that's not something that started in 2015.

[b]What shifted for kids is they went from mostly using books, paper, and pencil in the classroom to using 1:1 devices and ed tech software. That's true for kids who were get zero screen time at home, and it's true for kids who get hours of screen time at home every day[/b].

Go back to physical books, handwriting, and working out math problems with pencil and paper. Studies show that children retain information better and longer when they learn it from physical media instead of digitally.[/quote]

I am just so angry about this. I feel like my kids were the guinea pigs in this terrible experiment. They had 1-1 from 5th grade for my oldest / 2nd grade for my youngest, and at the time, no one in my parent group thought it was a negative. When my youngest was in 5th grade, I refused to sign the liability assumption for the tech because I didn't want him to have an iPad in the first place. He wasn't allowed to bring the iPad home - fine with me. Every.single.interaction I had with his teacher, she made it sound like I was disadvantaging him by not signing the form and allowing him to use the tech outside of school. And I was the only parent in the entire elementary school who refused. Now, there is more pushback from the parents, thankfully, but it doesn't change the fact that my rising college freshman who comes from "one of the best school districts in the country" was never taught how to work things out on paper. [/quote]

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