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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious to how much tech has been used the first two days. My kid said they logged in yesterday and today used it for 20 mins to research something for an assignment. This is 6th grade. Honestly, I am fine with my kid using tech as long as they are not on it all day. [/quote]

I teach third grade. Our grade level doesn’t plan on having them log in until next week at the earliest. After that they won’t be using their laptops daily. They didn’t last year. It will vary.[/quote]

Why do 3rd graders need to be on laptops at all? These kids missed 1/3rd of K, all of a normal forsr
Grade
and had tons of covid disruptions last year and probably too much laptop time. Let them have one normal year of quality education.[/quote]

Laptops were used pre covid! You all act like schools never used tech before covid. Literally every K-3 teacher uses tech for county assessments and maybe a literacy station. Maybe they use wixie at some point. If you feel the tech usage is beyond that and you gave concerns, discuss with the teacher. Obviously tech usage will vary from school to school and classroom to classroom. But saying no technology in the year 2022 is ridiculous. [/quote]

If the laptop cart was only pulled into the room a few times a year for assessments and there was one computer in the classroom for a station, no one would conplain. That was our school pre-covid. The education my younger child is getting at the same school, 3 years younger, is absolute garbage compared to his older sister. Last year they were on the laptops all day long in 4th. Thats not teaching or learning. Hoping this year he has a teacher with some professional self respect who can use tech sparingly, as it is meant to be used in k-8.[/quote]

Agree. No one is saying no tech, ever. People are saying kids don't need to drag them back and forth and use them EVERY DAY. These kids have had too much of their education trashed by virtual garbage and google slides. Keep the laptops put away and provide a real education.[/quote]

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