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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a middle school special education teacher. I work with students like your son. There are options that I have utilized and which one works depends on the specific child. For some students, paper and pencil version is fine and preferred. For others, they may throw a fit and being given paper and pencil is worse than the computer. For some students, we use a first and then board. First you complete your assignment and then you get five minutes on a an educational game website. For other students, we freeze their computer to block access to any other site than the site that is given. No one size fits all but hopefully something will help. [/quote]

Why tf would the school not block access for ALL kids? Unbelievable.

Also paper and pencil just is not available once the Ed tech becomes more integrated into the curriculum. It’s a lot more than just printing out a worksheet. [/quote]

Other teacher back again- the HS teacher. Yes, I block access for everyone except what we need to be on.  Kids are equally addicted and off task these days.  The controls are not perfect but help for a large percentage.

I have two teens myself and one has an IEP and one does not.  We’ve used different combinations of controls and learning self management with tech over the years.  This is not strictly a special ed issue any longer and that poster blaming the parent was not being fair.  Parents can’t control their kids when they are in school and so many of them will get around anything we put in place.

My kid with an IEP is going to college next fall and currently has no controls whatsoever, thankfully, and can now self manage. He will need to be able to do that when he’s living on his own.  He had very strict lockdown in everything when he was in middle school.  [/quote]

Agree. Screen management is something all kids need to learn. So far my kid (HFA and inattentive-ish) doesn’t seem to find the biggest challenge in staying on task on screens - he seems about average there - but he definitely suffers from not being able to absorb instruction from the screen and the lack of guidance as teachers decide to just let the computer do the teacher. he’s generally more emotionally reactive than average, so the annoyances of the apps (the annoying voiceovers, forced pace, and glitches) throw him off. Academically because he is naturally strong in reading and writing, the screens haven’t hurt him that much, but the lack of feedback and focused repetition has (ie no grammar tests or spelling tests). Math is a disaster though - he just cannot learn what he needs to be learned by being rushed through an app and shown the main lessons by video. RIP my savings - all going to Mathnasium now! [/quote]

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