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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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.

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 absolutely agree that edtech has made the problem much, much worse. But you’d be shocked by how many K and 1st grade kids go to bed with an iPad or phone. I’m a teacher and I ask about their bedtime routines.[/quote]

It would be much easier to get rid of the devices if the school wasn't assigning homework on them. I have strict rules but the kids are always telling me they have to check this or that or do something in some app. I want no screens during the week but the schools undermine me every step of the way.[/quote]

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